Mandatory Grant Applications
Employers have to submit the WSP and ATR report,the submission deadline will be 30 April of each year. The period for data compilation for submission is therefore effectively reduced to a 1 month period. LabourNet will continue to assist clients with the submissions. Proper record keeping of all training, copies of certificates and proof of payment will have to be kept up to date throughout the reporting period to ensure timeously reporting. The mandatory grant will be reduced to 20% of an employer’s 1% skills levy.
- The reduction is significant and employers will have to utilise the discretionary grant applications.
- Mandatory grants will continue to be paid at least quarterly.
- Any mandatory grants not claimed will be transferred into the SETA’s discretionary fund by 15 August annually.
- SETA will only pay out an employer’s mandatory grant if the eligibility criteria for payment of mandatory grants are met.
Annexure 2 (WSP) / Mandatory Grant applications for respective SETAs
- Annexure 2 and ATR submission for companies within their Clientele
- Monitoring and verification of learning programmes implemented by SETAs
- Analysis of Annexure 2 (WSP and ATR) submitted and any other pertinent data to update the SSP
- Capacity Building interventions for Skills Development compliance and access of grants for learning programmes
Research services for SETAs and companies with specific focus on:
- Skills Needs analysis identified per subsector in the sector
- Identification of key role players and trends
- Impact studies
- Workplace Skills Plan (WSP)
- Annual Training Report (ATR)
- PIVOTAL Plans ( new SD requirement)
- PIVOTAL Reports ( new SD requirement)
Discretionary Grant Applications
The allocation of discretionary grants will be directly related to each SETA’s scarce skills plan and will be guided by an approved Discretionary Grant Policy. SETA’s will have to ensure that the distribution of grant applications and project proposals forms are done in a way to enable national access and to allow various individuals or institutions to be able to apply for them.
SETA’s are required to focus on addressing scarce skills and critical skills through programmes designed to address skills needs and would include integrated learning.
In order to obtain discretionary funding for PIVOTAL programmes
- The employer or legal person must complete and submit a PIVOTAL training plan and report using the documents provided in the regulations published in December 2012.
- The regulations in the SETA Grant Regulations document was effective on 1 April 2013. The most significant changes will be the reduction in the mandatory grant percentage from 50% to 20% and the strict control and criteria to be met in terms of a company’s previous period WSP submitted to the SETA.
- Each SETA will require planned and implemented training to meet specific criteria.
- LabourNet will assist clients to identify and implement these requirements.
- Role of the Public Service Sector Education and Training Authority Essentially what the PSETA does is to assist provincial governments within an Integrated Provincial Support Programme (IPSP) with the aim of improving service delivery (with all its massive challenges) and extending good governance.
- Initially, when the SETA programme was launched nationally throughout South Africa, the Eastern Cape, kwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo Province were targeted. Then in 2002, the IPSP was extended to assist Mpumalanga, the Northern Cape and Free State as well.
