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Department: Educationadditional funding received for the Wage Agreement for the Public Service posts in the Annual Recruitment Plan (as these costs are centralised under Administration). Expenditure on goods and services increases from R446.116 million in 2021/22 to a revised estimate of R589.483 million in 2024/25. The budget for 2025/26 decline by 8.0 per cent due to high revise estimate, owing to the payment of accruals. The outer years subsequently show a growth in budget, which is fairly in line with anticipated increase in Consumer Price Index. Transfers and subsidies increased from R44.529 million in 2021/22 to a revised estimate of R52.612 million in 2024/25. The 2025/26 budget allocation declines by 42.4 per cent to R30.306 million largely under households due to high revised baseline, emanating from the department decision to prioritise and process the disbursement of leave gratuity backlogs. The outer years are provided in line with anticipated exits (mainly retirements). Expenditure on Capital Assets decreases from R68.526 million in 2021/22 to a revised estimate of R48.890 million in 2024/25 due to the effect of once off acquisitions of office equipment in the past. In 2025/26 the budget further declines by 21.9 per cent from the revised estimate. The current budget mainly provides for the annual rate card increase for leased vehicles, tools of trade (Laptops) as well as payment of licensing fees for Caseware Software to ensure efficient service delivery. Service Delivery Measures Table 12: Selected service delivery measures for the programme: EstimatedperformanceMedium-term estimatesProgramme performance measures 2024/25 2025/26 2026/27 2027/28SOI 101:Number of Public Schools that use the South African Schools Administration and Management Sy stems (SA-SAMS) or any alternativ e electronic solution to prov ide data. 5 045 4 940 4 890 4 835SOI 102:Number of Public Schools that can be contacted electronically (e-mail). 5 045 4 940 4 890 4 835SOI 103:Percentage of education ex penditure going tow ards non-personnel items. 20% 20% 20% 20%NSOI 104 :Percentage of schools v isited at least tw ice a y ear by district officials for monitoring and support purposes. 65% 67% 70% 75%NSOI 105: Percentage of schools hav ing access to information through connectiv ity 64% 80% 85% 90%NSOI 106: Number of qualified Grade R-12 teachers aged 30 and below , entering the public serv ice as teachers for the first timeduring the financial y ear. 400 856 897 986NSOI 107 Number of schools installed w ith Local Area Netw ork (LAN) 700 1 331 900 923NSOI 108 Number of officials trained through skills dev elopment programmes 1 500 2 000 2 020 2 040 Table 12 above provides selected service delivery measures for Administration over the 2025 MTEF period. The department continues to ensure proper learner tracking and credible data through the implementation of SASAMS and various data analytical tools as well as the introduction of the transfer payment system tool which will assist in the effective management of payments made on the BAS system. 8.2 Programme 2: Public Ordinary School Education Objective: To provide Public Ordinary Education from Grades 1 to 12, in accordance with the South African Schools Act and White Paper 6 on Inclusive Education: %uf0b7 Public Primary Level: Provides specific public primary ordinary schools (inclusive education) with resources required for grades 1 to 7 levels. %uf0b7 Public Secondary Level: Provides specific public secondary ordinary schools with resources required for the grades 8 to 12 levels. %uf0b7 Human Resource Development: Provides departmental services for the professional and other development of educators and non-educators in public ordinary schools. %uf0b7 School Sport, Culture and Media services: Provides additional and departmentally managed sporting, cultural and reading activities in public ordinary schools; and 346