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    "content": "government. County governments were expecting that the national Government should be supporting fully the special needs schools. They were so pathetic even the food that was supposed to be given to the children was so scarce. To make the matters worse, most of the children who are in local special schools in our county come from very poor families. This Bill will be so important when it becomes an Act of this Parliament because it will support those children with special needs. I have gone through this Bill right from the Object part of it. It will provide a proper framework that will guide all the structures, the curriculum, examinations, construction of the infrastructure and management of this particular special need education programmes. I am so happy that some parts of it touch on proper objects that will be guiding special needs education programme. For example, it will provide a legal framework that will guide whatever will be happening in that place. When you have a legal framework in an institution or area of concern, it will be easier to monitor and provide checks and balances in those places. When there is a legal framework, whoever will work in contrary with what the law requires will be answerable according to the law. In the Object part it will also eliminate exclusion and discrimination that is happening now in those institutions. Even though everyone in this country has a right to education, the current legal framework does not provide a robust legal framework that will eliminate discrimination on matters of special need education. This Bill provides the clear role of the national and county governments. Right now, the secondary and primary school, tertiary education and universities fall squarely in the hands of the national Government. That is why provision of finance and management is so organized and structured that it can easily be identified and monitored. On matters of finance, it is easy to tell who should be funding which level of education. When it comes to ECDE, I thank this Committee. During our tenure, we managed to come up with Early Childhood Education Bill that is now providing effective framework to management, recruitment of teachers and structures of ECDE in this county. With the assention to that particular Bill to an Act of Parliament, most of the counties today have implemented it. One the county that has implemented this Act is Bomet County. Today as I am speaking, the county government has employed 1,300 teachers to handle ECDE on permanent and pensionable basis. Most of the counties have implemented this Bill and are now providing feeding programmes to our children in ECDE. If the Bill has done a lot of good work to our ECDE centres. Therefore, this Bill on special needs education is very important. I have also seen in some part of it that it provides a framework for registration and management of Special Needs Education Centres. Registration of schools in this country is very slow. It is very interesting that even normal schools like primary schools in some counties have not been registered. Some that have been built by parents and have students have developed to the level of reaching standard seven or eight and even form three, but have not been The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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