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    "id": 951283,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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        "legal_name": "Julius Kipbiwot Melly",
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    "content": "Paragraph 9 of Part 11 of the Fourth Schedule to the Constitution provides that free primary education is a function of county governments. County governments are, therefore, conferred with the mandate of ensuring the implementation of early childhood education within the counties. Though the policy and the planning part remains at the national level, this Bill seeks to address and to put the law in place, so that early childhood education is done well by the county governments. Part I of the Bill provides the preliminary provisions including the Short Title and the interpretation of terms as used in the Bill. The Part also sets out the objects and purposes of the Bill as well as the guiding principles that guide counties and other actors in the implementation of the Bill. Part II of the Bill provides for the rights of every child to free and compulsory early childhood education. In public education centres, in order to realise that right, the Bill assigns various duties to county governments, parents and teachers that will facilitate promotion of the right to early childhood education. As you all know, education in this country as per the Basic Education Act is free and compulsory. However, on the early childhood education, it is structured in ways that parents have to play their role, the county government has to play its role and the teachers have their role, so that this right is ensured. The Bill also obligates the County Executive Committee Member (CECM) to establish such infrastructure as may be necessary to ensure the access to this education by children with disabilities. Our Committee visited Kibos in Kisumu last week, a school for visually impaired. That institution was established at the dawn of Independence, in the early 1960s. It is one of such institutions in this country. I think they are only two or three. During those early periods, provision of education to the physically challenged was not there. The school’s administration The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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