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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Prof.) Jacqueline Oduol",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to speak on this important Bill. At the outset, I support the Bill. I thank the Departmental Committee on Education and Research and the Chair. As we have heard a number of Members mention, it is extremely important that we have a law or Bill that will set out standards and give clear procedures or principles that must be followed when we are dealing with an area that is as important as early childhood education. It is clear, as we have seen in the Bill that we will have a situation where there will be clear standards of ensuring that there is commonality on areas that deal with registration, the age of children when they go for early childhood education and issues of the teacher-student ratio. Looking at the issue of space in terms of early childhood education, we do not only want to have land for infrastructure and classrooms, but we also want to have facilities where those children would be able to play and also have infrastructural arrangements such as kitchens and staff who are engaged. One of the key reasons why I support the Bill is because it is setting out standards. The standards touch on very key issues of remuneration, curriculum, and in particular, issues that touch on governance so that we do not leave the early childhood education system or programmes to the whims of county governments and, sometimes, to the very difficult innuendos of political organising. I would also like to draw the attention of the House and of the Departmental Committee on Education and Research that it is useful for us to remember that we need a law to help us set standards, procedures and principles. We need a Bill because we can enforce it. As early as 2006, we already had, in our country, a national early childhood development policy framework. We would be doing a disservice if our roles as Members of Parliament that span from legislation to oversight to representation are heavily bent on legislation and fail to take into account the lack of 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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