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"content": "Member for Kipkelion West, did you want to speak to this Bill?"
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Hilary Kosgei",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to add my voice to this Bill as a Member of the Committee that sat through the presentation by Hon. Kimilu. As our colleagues have said, this Bill is long overdue. We went through the Bill at length last year. I ask the House to pass this Bill so that social workers can establish their Council that will be responsible for vetting them and cleaning up the register of professional social workers, so that it is not as amorphous as it is right now. The Bill is divided into Nine Parts, including the Preamble. It highlights the merits of establishing the proposed institute and the board. The Bill is long overdue. We support it as a Committee. With those remarks, I support. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "Member for Nyatike, Hon. Tom Odege. Has he left? There he is."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Allow me to congratulate my brother for coming up with this timely Bill. As a country, we have lagged behind for so long. We are trying to classify and ring-fence social work for the professionals. This has already been done in all the developed countries in the world. Most of the social workers who are now coming into the country to train our people got their training in the USA. We have been doing social work but we did not know it was such an important profession that needed recognition and protection. Giving social workers an Act that can protect the services that they give to our people is timely. Social workers play a key role in the healthcare and education sectors. They also play a key role in the communities. It will give us the key element that we lack as a country if we encourage our people to train as social workers and protect themselves. The Government can also recognise them as professionals. They will be given duties and jobs that are commensurate to the services we get from them. This will make it a more attractive profession and a ladder for people who will employ themselves or get employed to strengthen the functions of our counties. Looking at the county governments currently, the key services they offer are based on social activities. If we have people who are trained in those areas, the counties will be better. They will be offering very key services to our people. A majority of us have not realised that our people need those services. Recognising and professionalising issues related to social work is timely. It is good for our people. As the Majority Whip has put it, she witnessed her mother practice social work, which helped their homestead. She saw it. If social work helped them from the family level until eight of them got educated, why do we not also encourage ourselves to make it more attractive to most of our people? We should professionalise and protect it. Social work services are needed. Our people will also enjoy quality social services within our counties and families. With those remarks, I support."
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"content": "Hon. Members, I acknowledge the presence of students from Rockside Academy from Embakasi East Constituency, Nairobi County, and Kenvic School from Kajiado North Constituency, Kajiado County, who are seated in the Public Gallery."
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"content": "I call upon Hon. Ngogoyo to welcome them on our behalf."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to welcome the students from the two schools – those from Rockside Academy of Embakasi East Constituency, and those from Kenvic School of Kajiado North Constituency. The Kenvic School is a very good performing school in Oloolua Ward in Kajiado North Constituency. As the area Member of Parliament, I tell them that Parliament is a good place to work. Decisions for this country are made here. I urge them to work hard so that some of them who are seated in the Public Gallery or their schools can come to represent Kajiado North Constituency in this House. It is one of the places where ideas are generated and policies are validated. As parliamentarians, we make decisions that affect the whole country from this small place. Welcome very much. Work hard in your studies. I am sure some of you will one day find yourselves seated where I am seated. I am happy to welcome all the students who are seated in the Public Gallery, and specifically those from Kenvic School."
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"content": "Next to speak on the Bill is the Member for Marakwet West, Hon. Timothy Toroitich. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": " Thank you for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. I thank Hon. Kimilu for the progressive legislation that seeks to recognise and protect social workers in this country. A regulatory framework is essential in determining a sector’s output. Lawyers in this country discharge their duties without any compromise because they have a professional body that regulates the conduct of individual lawyers. It would be very important for social workers to have a body to regulate them. They must also be able to stipulate a certain kind of professionalism in the performance of their duties so that they can work properly within a legal framework. Hon. Deputy Speaker, as a lawyer, you are aware that a probation officer submits a probation report in a court of law before sentencing is meted out to an offender. Sometimes, those probation officers are compromised so that they submit false reports about offenders. Clause 29 of the Bill clearly provides for the discipline that should be observed by members of the proposed body. It says that a person who is registered under this Act commits an act of professional misconduct if the person engages in corrupt practice, among other professional misconducts that are listed thereunder. An innocent person may be charged in a court of law. When the court issues a directive to a particular officer to prepare a probation report, the officer is required to perform his or her duties professionally. He or she must issue a report that is not compromised. That way, innocent individuals who find themselves before a court of law will be protected. Such report must meet a certain threshold when the court weighs it. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the only concern I have with this Bill is that it does not provide a clear definition of ‘social work.’ The Bill also limits its scope to officers serving in the health, education and social services sectors. I believe there are other officers who serve as social workers in other departments. That definition should be reviewed to accommodate more service sectors. I also congratulate the Member on the aspect of funding. Many professions in the country want to depend on the Exchequer for funding. The Bill talks about the board having its own sources of revenue. That is commendable. Clause 34 talks about the source of funding for this body. It identifies the sources as ‘such monies or assets as may accrue or vest in the Council in the course of performance of its powers or functions, and such monies as may be payable to the Council pursuant to the Act as donations or gifts.’ The Council will not depend on the Exchequer for funding. I believe this is the way to go for professional bodies in this country, instead of them depending on the Exchequer. With those remarks, I support the Bill, to which I will propose amendments during the Committee of the whole House."
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