Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) on Early Childhood Development (ECD). Inaugural meeting on 23 April 2024.
Department of Basic Education. Early Childhood Development Directorate
The central government responsibility for early childhood development shifted from the Department of Social Development to the Department of Basic Education with effect from 1 April 2022. Presentation: ECD Function Shift
South Africa. Financial and Fiscal Commission. Technical report: submission for the Division of Revenue, 2021/2022. Chapter 7, Investigating the appropriate role of the state in ECD education, page 178 ff.
South Africa. Parliament. House of Assembly. Portfolio Committee on Basic Education. ECD migration from DSD to DBE; Tracking progress in ECD service delivery: NGO briefing, 03 March 2020. (Includes presentations, committee reports and South African Early Childhood Review 2019.)
Department of Social Development. Funding for Early Childhood Development Centres
UNICEF South Africa. Early Childhood Development. "With a strong presence in South Africa, UNICEF is a leading advocate for children."
Early Childhood Development (ECD) Information Hub (ECD Info Hub). Website of the Department of Basic Education and UNICEF.
Children's Act 38 of 2005, as amended. Chapter 6.
Subscription databases:
LexisNexis Online (South Africa)
National Legislation (NetLaw) via Sabinet Legal
SA Statutes via Juta Law
Open access:
Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII)
Laws of South Africa: Consolidated Legislation; choose Current Legislation; then Family; then Children's Act 38 of 2005. Currently unavailable, January 2025.
ECD Info Hub. Legislation
Carter, Jonathan, Linda Biersteker, Judith Streak. Costing centre-based early childhood development programmes for children under age five : case studies from the Western Cape. Pretoria : Human Sciences Research Council, September 2008.
World Bank, Department of Basic Education. South Africa: public expenditure and institutional review for early childhood development. Washington, DC : World Bank, 2022.
World Bank, Department of Basic Education. South Africa: public expenditure and institutional review for early childhood development: overview. Washington, DC : World Bank, 2022.
Financial and Fiscal Commission. Financing early childhood development infrastructure. Pretoria : Financial and Fiscal Commission, 2015 (Policy brief 5/2015) Shelf no. G 68 E.FINA.15.FINA
Financial and Fiscal Commission. Submission for the 2016/17 Division of Revenue. Chapter 5, Fiscal arrangements for financing and delivery of ECD. Pretoria : Financial and Fiscal Commission, 2016.
For public expenditure on early childhood development consult the Estimates of national expenditure Vote for Social Development, e.g., Estimates of national expenditure, 2022/2023. Vote 19, Social Development
South Africa. Department of Basic Education, Department of Social Development, and UNICEF (2010). Tracking public expenditure and assessing service quality in Early Childhood Development in South Africa. Shelf no. G 68 E.EDUC.10.TRAC
South Africa. Parliament. National Council of Provinces. Early Childhood Development Expenditure: National & Provincial Education; Social Development Departments & National Treasury briefings, 29 August 2008.