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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Miraj",
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    "content": "Clause 18 requires parents of pregnant children and of child parents to continue with their parental obligations of support to their child. Clause 19 provides for the school obligation to counsel the child, readmit the child once the child is born, continue supporting the child so that they continue with their education. Clause 20 makes it an offence for the school administration to refuse to readmit a child once they have given birth. Upon conviction, the school principal and every member of the school administration may be fined to up to cash Kshs500,000 or jailed for six months, or both. Clause 21 provides for establishment of childcare centers in or within the vicinity of an institution of basic education. These may be established by county government or by person licensed to provide childcare services. Clause 22 provides that the childcare services provided are for the benefit of the children less than three years old, whose parents are children who are being readmitted to school, or as children whose parents have no one to take care of the child. Madam Temporary Speaker, Clause 23 provides for the requirement of a childcare centre, including its accessibility, affordability, ability to give adequate supervision to the children and availability of qualified personnel to cater for the children. Clauses 24 to 33 provide for licensing of childcare centres by counties. Counties are also required to enact legislation and to guide the licensing process within the county. It also prescribes how services should be rendered in the childcare centers and how the centers are to be managed. Clause 35 provides for the services that are to be provided in the childcare centre, including the care and the supervision of children, counselling of child parents, outreach programmes and recreational activities. Clause 37 provides for inspections and evaluation of safety in safety care and the obligation to keep the premises safe for children, to have contacts of emergency services providers such as hospitals, ambulance services and firefighting services. Clause 42 provides for continued recognition of care centres, which are already in existence and are already licensed. It, however, gives the County Executive Committee Members power to give the care and notice requiring them to register afresh under the Act. Implementing the measures proposed in the Bill will enhance protection of child parents and ensure that the country moves closer to 100 per cent access to basic education by children in Kenya. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those remarks, I beg to move and request Sen. Orwoba to second the Bill."
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