Real Reform for ECD is urging government to increase early childhood development investment [SOUND]

# Real Reform for ECD has called on the government to increase funding for early childhood development, saying under-investment in early childhood is a choice, one with disastrous consequences for children. In the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement, minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana allocated funding for maternal and child nutrition and additional social workers. The organisation’s Claire Rankin highlights the economic benefits of investing in early childhood development, noting that quality programmes for disadvantaged children have delivered lifetime returns of 13.7-percent a year: