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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) S. W. Chege",
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "I remember at the time we were joining ECDE centers at my area, we were required to put a hand across our heads. If you could not touch your ear that meant you could not access education. Some of us have some challenges. Others have special needs so we will have clear regulations and laws on who should join. There will be no limitation or interview at that early age to join an ECDE center. The Bill recognises the need to strengthen school inspection and ensure service delivery at ECDE centers. To equip ECDE centers to ensure that all free primary schools meet minimum quality standards of teaching and learning and provision of ECDE to marginalised hard to reach areas and vulnerable schools through provision of mobile schools is pointed out in Sessional Paper 24. So, there should be no child in this nation who should miss education because of their locality, marginalisation or background. Finally, the Bill discriminates in the provision of feeding programmes targeting only cases of malnutrition or children with special nutritional needs. So, we will be looking at the amendments because we feel that we should obligate county governments to feed these children at this early age. Sessional Paper No. 14 pointed out the need to provide health and nutritional support of children between zero to five years old attending day care centers and schools. The Bill also fails to recognise the learning language to be used by the learners and we will be moving an amendment. The Sessional Paper observed that the language of the catchment area which is the mother tongue shall be used for child care and I want to advocate for this. In preprimary education and education in lower primary for children between zero to eight years where sign language is required, appropriate means of communication shall be used in the delivery of education to learners with special needs. So, as I move, I would request that this House moves fast. This Bill is timely. We need to move with it. We need it to become law so that we can protect our young children as they enter education centers. I beg to move and ask Hon. Ken Okoth to second."
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