4.5 Early Childhood Development: The policy obliges the Department to provide for Grade R which should only be attached to Primary Schools. For 0- 4 year old, the Department was expected to provide stimulation programmes and training to Early Childhood Development practitioners. In the Eastern Cape, the Department carried the full responsibility for ECD centres which in the main catered for 0-4 year olds. The cost of this extra responsibility calculated in 2010 was estimated to R28 million.