# The Gauteng Education Department has allocated 2.9-billion-rand of its 68-billion-rand budget for the 2025/2026 financial year towards creating safer schools. The department’s comprehensive approach to creating safe schools includes security deployment to over one-thousand-500 schools, and pro-poor interventions ensuring economic circumstances don’t become barriers to education. MEC Matome Chiloane says schools must be sanctuaries of safety and centres of community.
Gauteng Education commits R2.9-billion to create safer schools