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    "content": "registered. When you get to the ground to find out from the Directors of Education, the reasons these schools have not been registered include concerns over the size of land and provision of facilities such as washrooms and the rest. The Government is refusing to register these schools yet the same Government is supposed to provide. In some places where the parents have struggled to put down some structures, still the Government is not ready to register or support the parents. In my county, for example, I am still struggling. I have five schools that were supposed to register candidates for standard eight, but they could not do so because they are not been fully registered. The schools have dispersed learners to very far away centres to be registered. Even though there is proper framework for registration in this country for secondary and primary schools, they lack Government support. The Directors of Education simply come with quality Assurance Personnel to inspect what they have not assisted the parents to build. It is very ridiculous that instead of supporting the parents’ efforts to establish structures they only go round to inspect them and at times close then without instead of offering them support. If now it is a struggle to implement the law within high schools and primary schools that already have a legal framework for registration, how difficult when it when it comes to schools that provide special needs education? We should speed up the process of making sure that this Bill becomes law in country so that it may assist in the registration and management of Special Needs Education Centres. Currently, schools which are good in the provision of special needs education are only those managed by religious institutions. Those managed by the Government are pathetic. When I was in the Senate Committee on Education, we managed to visit some. I am sure that was what motivated Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve and Sen. (Pro.) Kamar to come up with this important Bill This Bill also provides identification and assessment of children with special education needs. Currently, assessment centers are very few in the country and they are not known by villagers everywhere. Another thing that I am sure is lacking is information to these particular families in remote areas that have special needs children. They rarely get the information on what is happening in assessment centers. Therefore, awareness should be made by the professional administration and everybody concerned so that these children are assessed and categorized accordingly to various institutions that provide their needs. I am so sure that in Bomet County where I come from, there is only one assessment center. One time, I visited it and it was so idle. Nobody was visiting it and the officers that were there were relaxed and they did not have a clear structure on making public awareness of assessment of children with special needs. The identification and assessment of children with special needs is very important. Stigma is also very high in some communities. Some parents are not ready to take these children to assessment centers to be assisted accordingly. The provisions by this particular Bill on effective structure on assessment is very important. Another point that really impressed me was the institutional management for special education, which is lacking in our country. This will be a game-changer on matters to do with management special needs centers. 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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