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    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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        "legal_name": "Julius Kipbiwot Melly",
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    "content": "has tried to improvise so that the physically challenged like those who have issues of mobility can use the facility well. This is something we have told all CECMs in charge of education to ensure that this is provided for. Part III of the Bill provides for the establishment of registration and maintenance of early childhood education centres in county governments. The application for registration shall be submitted to the County Education Board (CEB) in prescribed form. In fact, this Bill seeks to look at the sector in a radical way. As we move forward, early childhood education centres shall not be established in the current form where churches, centres or even well-wishers can just bring children together and just ask for registration from the Government. They shall be required to put facilities in place first and ensure those facilities have been inspected, meet the requirements of the health officer and public works, so that we can stop the problem we saw the other day where students and teachers live and work in shanties in the name of schools. With this Bill, it shall be mandatory that before any centre is registered and known as an ECDE centre, it will have to meet those requirements. The students will come last. In the current form, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker and Hon. Members, you will realise that even in our constituencies, we have pressure as Members of Parliament. You are at times told that “we have students up to Class Four in mud-walled classes”. The Member of Parliament is pressed to register them. There is nothing we can do because the students are already there. In this instance, we are asking the CECM to ensure that the structures, infrastructure and all the required facilities are in place. The Bill, in Part III, provides for the substitutability and change of premises for an education centre as well as mobile schools which shall be established on requirements prescribed by the cabinet secretary. It has been known that some ECDE centres are mobile. You cannot change a mobile education centre or an ECDE centre into a form that is not guided by the Bill. In Part IV, the Bill provides for the management of ECDE centres. It will be vested in the Board of Management (BoM). It provides for the establishment of BoMs for ECDE centres. This is a managerial area where the Bill seeks to establish BoMs in all ECDE centres. In areas where ECDEs exist alone or as what I call “stand-alone”, they shall have their BoMs. In areas where ECDEs exist with main schools, they shall be integrated and become part of the schools’ BoMs. Part IV provides for the administration of ECDE systems. The Part provides for each county government to provide overall governance and management of ECDE centres. This is very important, especially the role of the CECM, the ECDE teachers and the county governments in management of the schools. It is purely a county government function. The Part also prohibits certain actions such as administration of exams of admission, holding back of pupils, expulsion from the centres and charging tuition fees in public ECDE centres. A few minutes ago, one of our Hon. Members said some schools are charging illegal fees. This has been talked about every other time in this House. You will find that some schools charge admission fees, tuition fees and all those charges. This Bill seeks to make sure those things are outlawed. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MOEST), the Cabinet Secretary and the CECM in charge of ECDE need to take this very seriously, so that all ECDE centres do not charge those fees. The Bill is very clear. The law is very clear on that matter. Part IV also provides that the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) shall be responsible for the development of ECDE curriculum, which will be applied in all counties. The section is very important to make ECDE standards across the counties. I know there are certain peculiarities on mother tongue, cultures and many other things. However, the curriculum 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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