Skills Development Act, 1998 (Act No. 97 of 1998)ConstitutionsConstitution of Wholesale and Retail Sector Education and Training Authority (W&R SETA)8. Functions of the W&R SETA |
| 8.1 | THE W&R SETA shall, subject to the provisions of the Act, have the following functions and all such other functions as it may be required to perform in terms of the Act; |
| 8.2 | To develop a sector skills plan within the framework of the national skills development strategy for the sector. |
| 8.3 | To increase the levels of investment in education and training in the sector and to improve the return on that investment. |
| 8.4 | To implement the sector skills plan by: |
| 8.4.1 | Approving workplace skills plans; |
| 8.4.2 | Establishing learnerships |
| 8.4.3 | Allocating grants in the prescribed manner to employers, education and training service providers and workers in the sector; |
| 8.4.4. | Monitoring education and training in the sector; and |
| 8.5 | To promote learnerships by: |
| 8.5.1 | Identifying the relevant workplace where individuals can gain practical work experience; |
| 8.5.2 | Improving the facilitation of learning; |
| 8.5.3 | Encouraging workers in the sector to participate in learnership and other training programmes; |
| 8.5.4 | Encouraging employers in the sector to use the workplace as an ctive learning environment; |
| 8.5.5 | Supporting learning and the development of learning materials; and |
| 8.5.6 | Assisting in the conclusion and registration of learnership agreements. |
| 8.5.7 | To perform the functions of an Education and Training Quality Assurance body. |
| 8.5.8 | To liaise with the National Skills Authority as well as other SETAs on issues including inter alia: |
| 8.5.8.1 | A national skills development strategy; |
| 8.5.8.2 | A skills development policy; and |
| 8.5.8.3 | Its own sector skills plan. |
| 8.6 | To report to the Director-General on the implementation of its sector skills plan, its income and expenditure and to consolidate its reports; |
| 8.7 | To submit to the Director-General |
| 8.7.1 | 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, (Act No 1 of 1999) and |
| 8.7.2 | plans, reports on the implementation of its sector skills plan and service level agreement. |
| 8.8 | To liaise with employment services of the Department of Labour and any educational body established in terms of educational laws of South Africa in order to improve the quality of information: |
| 8.8.1 | about employment opportunities; |
| 8.8.2 | between educational providers and the labour market; and |
| 8.8.3 | quality assurance functions as contemplated in Section 10 of the Act. |
| 8.9 | To facilitate the involvement of the relevant government departments and employer and employee organisations in the activities of the W&R SETA to: |
| 8.9.1 | Address the competency requirements for social delivery; |
| 8.9.2 | Address the learning needs of the sector; and |
| 8.9.3 | Promote training in small, medium and micro enterprises to enable them to qualify for public contracts, |
| 8.10 | To register learnership agreements; |
| 8.10.1 | To apply for accreditation to the SAQA. |
| 8.10.2 | To disburse the skills development levies in the sector in terms of the Levies Act and its prescribed regulations; |
| 8.10.3 | To appoint an Executive Committee and such other committees, sub committees or chambers as it may from time to time determine necessary for the due performance of its duties; and |
| 8.11 | To perform any other duties imposed by the Act, the Levies Act and, the Constitution or any other function not specifically mentioned, in order to fulfill the objectives of W&R SETA. |
| 8.12 | To comply with provision of the Act by concluding a service level agreements as prescribed for each financial year. |