The functions of the SETA are to—
| 4.1 | assist to promote job creation, economic growth and decent work in the Sector; |
| 4.2 | co-ordinate the development of an overall training and education strategy for the Sector; |
| 4.3 | develop an integrated sector skills plan, incorporating sub-sector skills training requirements and objectives, within the framework of the national skills strategy; |
| 4.4 | implement the sector skills plan by— |
| 4.4.1 | approving workplace skills plans; |
| 4.4.2 | establishing learnerships; |
| 4.4.3 | disbursing grants in terms of the Act, and its regulations; |
| 4.4.4 | monitoring education and training in the Sector. |
| 4.5 | promote learnerships in each of the sub-sectors of the SETA; |
| 4.6 | perform the functions of an Education and Training Quality Assurance Body; |
| 4.7 | liaise with the National Skills, Authority on— |
| 4.7.1 | national skills development policy; |
| 4.7.2 | the national skills development strategy; and |
| 4.7.3 | its sector skills plan; |
| 4.8 | conclude a service level agreement with the Director-General of Labour in terms of section 10A of the Act; |
| 4.9 | promote the national standard established in terms of section 30B of the Act; |
| 4.10 | submit to the Director-General of Labour— |
| 4.10.1 | any budgets, reports and financial statements on its income and expenditure that it is required to prepare in terms of the Public Finance Management Act, 1999; and |
| 4.10.2 | plans and reports on the implementation of its Sector Skills Plan and service level agreement; |
| 4.11 | liaise with the employment services of the Department of Labour and any education body established under any law regulating education in the Republic, to improve information— |
| 4.11.1 | about employment opportunities; and |
| 4.11.2 | between education and training providers and the labour market; |
| 4.12 | facilitate the involvement of relevant government departments in the activities of the SETA to – |
| 4.12.1 | address the competency requirements for social delivery; |
| 4.12.2 | address the learning needs of the most vulnerable segments of the Sector; |
| 4.12.3 | promote training in SMMEs to enable them to qualify for public contracts; and |
| 4.13 | perform any duties imposed by the Act and to actively pursue concrete measures to achieve the objectives of the Act. |
