Official reply:
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
QUESTION 156 /2014
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
Date of publication on internal question paper: 21 February 2014
Internal question paper no: 02
156. Mrs N W A Michael (DA) to ask the Minister of Social Development:
(1) How are budgets for the nonprofit organisation sector determined
given her own departmentâs target of a maximum of 60 cases per social
worker;
(2) what is the average number of cases per social worker at the (a)
Kempton Park, (b) Tembisa, (c) Edenvale and (d) Boksburg child welfare
centres? NW162E
Reply:
The Gauteng provincial Department of Social Development determines the
subsidy and the number of social worker posts based on historical case
loads, prevalence of social pathologies in a particular community and its
demographics.
In other words, the number of social workers per organization is informed
by the previous track record of cases handled in the previous financial
year taking into account the afore-mentioned aspects
The average number of cases per social worker at the said organisations is
as follows:
|NPO |Office |Case load per|No of workers |Average |
| | |worker | | |
|Kempton |Kempton |180 |1 social worker |60 |
|park child|park |150 |(foster care | |
|welfare | |30 |supervision) | |
| | | |4 social workers | |
| | | |(access , | |
| | | |parental plan and| |
| | | |place of safety | |
| | | |placement) | |
| | | |1 Intake worker | |
|Tembisa |Tembisa |1760 |4 social workers |104 caseload |
|child | | |2 social workers |per social |
|welfare | | |(unsubsidized) |workers |
| | | |11 social |including |
| | | |auxiliary workers|auxiliary social|
| | | | |workers |
|Edenvale |Edenvale |74 |1 social worker |71 |
|child | |67 |1 social worker | |
|welfare | | | | |
|Boksburg |Vosloorus |240 |6 social workers |47 |
|child | | | | |
|welfare | | | | |
| |Reiger park|290 |3 social workers |58 |
| |Boksburg |310 |2 social workers |155 |