Application for ECD relief funding must be accessible and transparent
10 February 2021
While the Democratic Alliance (DA) welcomes the much-anticipated and desperately needed Early Childhood Development Employment Stimulus Relief Fund (ECD-ESRF), we call on the Department of Social Development to incorporate an additional process to accept physical applications and supporting documents from ECDs who are unable to submit online.
While we welcome priority for ECDs in poor wards as defined by the Multiple Poverty Index, we are concerned that the department will only be accepting online applications and all supporting documents must also be uploaded electronically. Yet, many in the sector do not have access to internet and/or data.
We will also submit a series of written parliamentary questions to Minister Lindiwe Zulu requesting a full breakdown of:
How the ECD-ESRF has and will be spent;