Western Cape Social Development Department urges ECDs to apply for Relief Fund
The Western Cape Social Development Department is urging Early Childhood Development Centres (ECD) in economic distress to apply for Government’s Early Childhood Development Employment Stimulus Relief Fund.
The Social Development Department has received
R496 million from National Treasury as part of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s
COVID-19 relief measures, to assist ECD programmes and services that have been
impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
R53 million has been distributed to support ECD
programmes and services in the Western Cape.
‘’The Early Childhood Development Employment
Stimulus Relief Fund is part of sustaining employment opportunities in the
sector in light of the high unemployment rate and job losses caused by the
Covid-19 pandemic.’’ Says Western Cape Social Development MEC, Sharna
Fernandez.
‘’ECD operators/owners/managers must apply on
behalf of their ECD service, and if successful, would pay the ECD employees.
Individual ECD workers cannot apply to the fund themselves. Successful
applicants can only use the funds to subsidise the cost of employment for
workers.’’ Fernandez added.
Ensure the following, before applying for the Early
Childhood Development Employment Stimulus Relief Fund:
• Banking account: All ECD services making an
application will need to have a bank account in the name of the ECD service.
• Loaded on the Central Supplier Database
(CSD): ECD services that do not currently receive funding from Provincial DSD
will need to be registered on the CSD database, which can be done via this
link: https://secure.csd.gov.za/Account/Register.
• The registration number generated from the
CSD database will be required for the stimulus application.
How to apply:
Applicants must use the govchat.app portal to
apply. For assistance with the application, call 0800 089 666. For more
information about the qualifying criteria, visit www.dsd.gov.za
Applications will close at 23h59 on 19 February 2021.
Done By: Mitchum George
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