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    "id": 1163502,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1163502/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Zani",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Zani",
        "slug": "agnes-zani"
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. The issue of Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) management and teachers across the country has been an issue of great concern in this House. We recently had a statement that was brought by Sen. Wambua, dealing with the same issue. It cuts across all counties. I thank the petitioners who have brought this petition to the Senate because this is a matter that needs to be interrogated, including the remuneration that is given where there is such variation. For example, for those who have certificate, diploma and degree qualifications. The variation across the counties in terms of payment of the ECDE teachers in itself is problematic. There has been a scheme of service that has been in draft form. The Standing Committee on Education has been trying to push that this scheme of service be properly implemented. For example, if the Council of Governors (COG) together with the Teachers Service Commission(TSC)and Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) come up with a collaborative framework to ensure that this is properly applied across all the counties it will help to address some of these issues. The scheme of service talks not only about the remuneration of these teachers. This Petition raises the issue of pension and how that is handled across each of the counties. From what the petitioners are saying, at the end of the day, we need to have a way to deal with the budgetary allocation for ECDE that is given to the counties because they are mainly disbursed through conditional grants. The conditional grants were removed in the last allocation suggesting the need to ring-fence those funds within those counties, which has also not happened. The county governments have to find a way to ensure that the money that goes as one main kitty into the Fund can be allocated for ECDE. Further, many of the counties are also going beyond their mandate in giving some of the money that might have been used for ECDE into other projects within the counties. An inspection of these would help to find out what money is ring-fenced for ECDE and to ensure that the money is specifically used for ECDE classrooms. There was an ECDE Bill from this House which creates and gives very clear specifications about how to handle this issue. This Petition is coming to this House at the"
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