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    "content": "employed. In order to be relevant, they struggle to go for studies during school holidays in order to get certificates. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Bill also talks about standards and the type of materials to be given to our children. It also proposes that there should be a fine for parents particularly in pastoralist regions who do not take their children to school especially the ECDE centres. In some of the pastoral regions, there are no schools. We should include, in this Bill that the county government must provide food so that the nomads who move from one place to another in search of food take their children to school because they will be sure that food will be provided for children at lower levels. The criteria for registration of a school and who qualifies to sit in the board are indicated. The curriculum should be that which can be understood. We visited Kisii County and found over 1,000 ECDE centres. We noted that most of them use different syllabi. This Bill proposes the need to standardise and ensure that there is a relationship between the national Government and the director in charge of the ECDE. They should come up with standards that will be applied across the board as the ECDE centres are built. In Clause 30, the Bill stipulates who should sit in the board and the role of parents in ensuring that their children go to school. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, children in some ECDE centres do not put on uniforms. Is it mandatory that all children in ECDE centres put on uniforms? These are some of the things which are being addressed by the Bill. Concerning payment of fees, we know that primary and secondary school education is free. What about the ECDE? It should be automatically free before you go up. That is the starting point of education and, therefore, it should be free. That means that uniforms, food and anything else should be free for children in the ECDE centres. It is like building a house and you need to lay a proper foundation. Substantial amount of expenditure should go to ECDE centres in county governments. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether you have taken note of this. Every weekend, governors and CECs rotate taking cheques to some schools of their choice. In my county, I have never had a cheque taken to an ECDE centre yet that is their function. That means that some governors and county governments have not understood their role properly. They think that education is the upper limit. So, they forget what was given to them. Administration of early childhood is also indicated in detail. However, when it goes to the next stage, there are proposals of what we need to have as a structure of management in the county; the ECDE committees; how they relate with the one in the school; how they relate to the one in the county and how they relate to the County Education Board which also oversees primary and secondary schools as well as polytechnics. Therefore, for the first time, this Bill comes at a time that we are putting the foundation of devolution right and making sure that what the people of Kenya agreed on is handled properly. Governors clamour to run and administer primary and secondary"
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