The sector will continue in its current format in the first year of the second phase.  It will continue on growing the Early Childhood Development and Community and Home Based Care programmes.  In order to increase the scale of the sector as desired and planned, a number of key issues had to be resolved and the sector is working on these. These include:

·     Standardising the employment framework for the sector which includes employment conditions, wages and progression in the sector once participants have improved their qualifications through the training provided through the EPWP

·      Funding mechanisms for growing the sector, in particular how the sector would access the wage incentive or developing proposals for other complementary funding mechanisms.  

·     Focus areas for expansion, which will rely on the development of implementation plans for some areas of employment creation already identified in previous studies.

              Social Sector:  No. of Work opportunities 

Social Sector 5-year Targets: No of Full time Equivalents