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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "North Imenti, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. At the outset, I want to support Hon. Joshua Kimilu for bringing the Social Work Professionals Bill. It is a good Bill that will create the Institute of Social Work Professionals. I have an issue with the social work professionals’ examinations which the Hon. Member has proposed. We know there are many social workers who have no qualifications and yet, they have been doing social work for a long time. We need to think about acquired expertise. As has been said, many social workers may not have gone through college or university, but they have on- job experience. I want the Hon. Member to think ahead so that social workers with no qualifications are given certificates and registrated by the Institute of Social Work Professionals. The Bill says that to be a social work professional, you should be of good conduct. This is good. Definitely, one must be of good conduct to do social work. It talks of paying a prescribed fee. This will give a leeway on what the actual prescribed fee will be. I wish it has proposed a specific amount which social workers can afford to pay. If the fee is so high, some social workers will not be in a position to pay for registration as professionals. Clause 18(1)(c) of the Bill states: “(c) has successfully undergone a prescribed certificate, diploma, degree or research course of instruction and has passed the appropriate examination conducted or prescribed by the institute in-” The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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