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    "id": 1057561,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1057561/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Igembe Central, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1574,
        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
        "slug": "cyprian-kubai-iringo"
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    "content": "Early Childhood Development, especially in Kenya, has been neglected to some degree. To some extent, our children have been going to Standard I having not been nurtured well and having not been prepared for proper learning and proper molding to make their lives smooth as they grow. Once we have streamlined ECD education, or we streamline how we handle our children immediately after they are weaned and are taken to school to be taken care of in kindergartens and other places, we need to be very prepared for the same. I appreciate this Bill because it brings a very good framework which has been lacking all along. A good framework of education starts with primary education. However, when it comes to ECD, we find a school starts an ECD class with untrained teachers and the children are put in dilapidated classrooms whereas their primary school counterparts are in good classrooms. They appear to be neglected. The passage of this Bill will ensure that ECD centres have Boards of Management (BoM) to see to it that all requirements and needs of the children are catered for. They should also go out of their way to ensure that we do not have any children of school-going age left at home. They should even ensure that disabled children are not kept at home but taken to learn with other children. If you go to the villages, you will find parents trying to hide children who are born with some forms of disabilities. Parents try to hide such children at home instead of taking them to school to develop their uniquely inherent talents despite their handicaps. The proposed body must look into that aspect once this Bill becomes law. Equally, there will be quality assurance teams who will go to the field to see who are teaching our children or handling them or who are taking care of their needs. Little children require the best of professionals, and not anybody picked from the village as it is the culture today. They will audit the learning facilities where the children are learning. The Bill stipulates clearly the kind of persons who shall constitute the BoMs. We even need nutritionists, medics and people who have been exposed to those teachings. Therefore, we will have a very good base for our children. On infrastructure, we understand that Early Childhood Development (ECD) is devolved. The same Bill is empowering and putting more teeth and claws to county governments, so that they can invest more on infrastructure and employ trained teachers, and ensure that the right boards of management (BoMs) are in place."
}