Funding the Children's Act: assessing the adequacy of the 2011/12 budget of the Free State department of social development
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Publication
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Category
ECCE
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Publication Year
2011
Publisher
University of Cape Town, Children's Institute, Cape Town, South Africa
URL
[ private ]
Pages
15 p.
Subject
Early childhood development, ECD programmes, ECD services, Donors, Government funding, Provincial budgets, Government legislation, Policy, Evaluation, Surveys, South Africa
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Abstract
To focus attention on the need to grow government budgets, each year since 2007, the Children's Institute and the Centre for Actuarial Research at the University of Cape Town have analysed the allocations for Children's Act services within the budgets of the nine provincial Departments of Social Development. In late 2009, recognising the need for more information about donor funding, the Community Agency for Social Enquiry, in partnership with the Children's Institute, conducted surveys of 48 funders and 30 NGOs delivering children's services. The immediate aim of the research was to find out more about the shortfall, and about the experiences of those involved. The ultimate aim was to contribute to increased funding for Children's Act services. This digest combines the most important information from these surveys together with the findings from the Children's Institute and Centre for Actuarial Research annual research on the provincial social development budgets.
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Report
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