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    "id": 218308,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/218308/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Mwiria",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Valerian Kilemi Mwiria",
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    "content": " Okay, I will read it out. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Ministry is in the process of working out modalities to mainstream early childhood development (ECD) and education as part of basic education, and to integrate four-year old to five- year old children into the primary cycle by 2010. Among the strategies laid out in the Kenya Education Sector Support Programme (KESSP) is a number of measures to be taken, including the development of a scheme of service for ECD teachers, liaising with other partners in education, particularly local authorities, to improve salaries and terms and conditions for ECD teachers and carrying out a baseline survey on the ECD sub-sector to determine how much it will cost the Government to integrate ECD as part of primary education. When these strategies are in place, a decision regarding payment of nursery teachers will be made. (b) Due to lack of adequate resources, the Government cannot construct classrooms for ECD centres at the moment. This has been left to the communities while the Government provides technical support. However, the Government, through the District Education Boards, has identified 4,000 ECD centres within public primary schools in arid and semi-arid lands, in slums and in areas of poverty across the country for the provision of community support grants, which can be used for improvement of infrastructure, among other needs. Phase I of this will be effective this financial year, 2006/2007. Thank you."
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