Official reply:
NCOP
QUESTION 247/2012
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
Date of publication on internal question paper: 18 May 2012
Internal question paper no: 13
247.       Mr S H Plaatjie (COPE-NW) to ask the Minister of Social
Development:
Whether, with reference to her reply to question 9 in the National Assembly
on 20 April 2011, how many (a) Home and Community Based Care Workers and
(b) Early Childhood Development Practitioners have been (i) trained and
(ii) employed through the Social Sector Expanded Public Works Programme in
(aa) 2009, (bb) 2010 and (cc) 2011?  CW343E
REPLY
a) (i) Trained
There is no category of workers called Community Workers who underwent
training under Social Sector EPWP.
(ii) The Social Sector EPWP does not currently have a category of
workers called
Community Workers and therefore does not have any employed.
b) The following are numbers of Community Care Givers trained and
employed
through EPWP Social Sector in the years reflected in the columns
i) trained
ii) employed by the Social Sector Expanded Public Works Programme
|Year |Employed |Trained |
|2009(aa)|18 895 |17 311 |
|2010(bb)|16 509 |14 546 |
|2011(cc)|14 509 |19 895 |
(c) The number reflected in the column account for the ECD practitioners
trained through EPWP Social Sector.
i) trained
ii) employed by Social Sector Expanded Public Works Programme
|Year |Employed |Trained |
|2009(aa)|0 |14 760 |
|2010(bb)|0 |7 323 |
|2011(cc)|0 |9 734 |
It should be noted that neither the Department of Social Development nor
the Department of Basic Education employ ECD practitioners under EPWP but
these are employed by private ECD facilities some of which are subsidised
by the Department of Social Development. Only Grade R practitioners are
employed by the Department of Basic Education but do not fall under EPWP.