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"content": "Hon. Members, I think Hon. Otiende Amollo has just said that we need to have a proper definition of who ‘social workers’ are, because there are various categories of workers out there who claim to be social workers. I do not think he made any bad insinuations."
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"content": "Hon. Members, allow me to interrupt our debate to recognize the presence of students from Gilgil Day Secondary School from Gilgil Constituency, Nakuru County, who are seated in the Public Gallery. I would like to request Hon. Martha Wangari, the Member for Gilgil Constituency, to welcome them on our behalf."
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"content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Allow me to also thank the Office of the Clerk because it has been very helpful and efficient in ensuring that we are able to clear our schools to visit Parliament. We are doing very well in this Session and I hope that we can maintain the status quo. Allow me to join you in welcoming the students from Gilgil Day Secondary School. We had another team yesterday. As I said, that school is quite big. So, we split the students into two groups. The first group came yesterday. I just want to wish them well. As they hold their mantra that ‘Knowledge is Power’, I hope they will learn something today as they observe the proceedings of this House. I also encourage them because in just a few years, we will have some of them becoming Members of Parliament while others take up other leadership positions. I hope we can be very good role models to them and to other kids who visit Parliament. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I thank you for indulging me to welcome the students to the House."
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"content": "Thank you very much. Next is the Member for Kitui South, Hon. Rachael Nyamai. Hon. Members, remember that I am picking those who have pressed the intervention button. That is the only way to indicate that you are interested in this particular debate."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I would like to say, at the outset, that I support this Bill, which has been proposed by Hon. Joshua Kimilu. This Bill concerns the social workers professionals, and 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": "it intends to ensure that the profession is more organized by ensuring that people get registered in order for them to provide the best services possible as envisaged in this proposed law that the Member has worked very hard to develop. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I listened to Hon. Joshua Kimilu as he moved this Bill. He told the House the kind of people who were engaged during public participation, and what he would like to achieve from this draft law. I realized that it is a very important Bill. It is important to note that as much as we value construction, Information Technology and Communication (ICT) and medicine, among other professions that are very important for our country’s development, those sectors cannot succeed without the support of soft skilled professionals, amongst whom are social workers. This Bill intends to regulate that profession. There is the possibility of anybody who assists within a community to feel that they are social workers even though they may not have any form of training in social work, or belong to any organization that offer social work services. They just say that they are social workers. This Bill is going to ensure that that profession is taken seriously, it is regulated and that professionals in the sector are registered, and that the quality of the services offered becomes better than it is today. I noticed that Hon. Joshua Kimilu tried to identify various categories of social workers. He talked about those who are in the health sector. Social workers serving within the health sector would be different from social workers serving in the construction sector, for example; because the latter category would be dealing with safety and other matters. I believe this Bill will properly classify social workers based on the specific profession that each category supports. That way, actors in every category will be able to get the requisite training so that they can serve better and professionally. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the Bill also proposes the possibility of social workers participating meaningfully in national development. Once the social workers have been categorized, and once the source of funding for the respective activities has been properly identified, it will be possible to link them with the relevant departments where they will be most useful. I believe this will not only open opportunities for social workers locally, but also internationally, where such professionals will be needed. If people would like, for example, to get an opportunity to work abroad, they will not just say that they are social workers. They will have to state their classification, produce evidence of training and registration. As a country, we will have properly organized and equipped our social work professionals with relevant skills that will enable them to get employment anywhere in the world. This Bill also gives social workers a voice. At this moment, you realize that if social workers are working within, for example, the engineering sector, they may be seen to be inferior to the engineers. Bosses within those institutions would feel that since they deal with engineers, they should only budget for the engineers, and not budget for soft skilled aspects, within which social workers fall. This Bill seeks to ensure that once social workers are registered, they are hired in an organized way. That way, their voice will be heard and their numbers will be bigger. They will not just be two or three in an institution which has thousands of people. This will give them value, a voice and enhance the possibility of proper remuneration. I also realize that the Bill seeks to ensure that social workers' unethical practices are dealt with very well. One of the reasons as to why I support this Bill is that there are so many unethical practices within the social work sector. I would like to give an example of social workers working, for example, in mental institutions, where there are so many allegations of patients being mishandled by social workers. This Bill seeks to ensure that in case of any unethical practices, the perpetrators are dealt with as per the law. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the world is changing fast. What used to be called ‘social work’ 10 years ago, what is social work today and what will be social work in another five years, will be different. This is because of the changing world situation where people experience different 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": "things so fast because of the ever-evolving technology in terms of computer software, emergence and application of Artificial Intelligence in day-to-day activities, and so much information being pumped into the communities. This Bill seeks to ensure that matters related to such evolution are handled. I am also very much encouraged to note that this Bill does not request for funding from the Exchequer. I think this is one aspect that the House has taken seriously – that people cannot just organise themselves into professional bodies, hook themselves up with a government ministry, or public institution, and seek to be given a budget line within the national budget. This Bill proposes that the professionals are going to finance themselves by making sure that they are organized, so that they will seek for donations. They will have to come up with written proposals to generate funds from elsewhere, so as not to rely on public funds. For example, at the moment, we are struggling to get money for TB drugs, HIV drugs and other health challenges. Hon. Deputy Speaker, Hon. Kimilu has come up with a very important Bill. I would like to congratulate and support him. I also encourage other Members to support the Bill. There are social workers of different sectors. There are those who work in hospitals, gender experts, those who work with probation officers, and others who deal with people who have been in prison for long and have been released, but are not able to deal with the situation. Those are professionals who need to be trained well so that they can deal with the category of people that they are supposed to deal with. Child welfare officers need to be given special training on communication skills with children and how to deal with traumatised children. I congratulate the Hon. Member for Kaiti for coming up with this important Bill. I support it. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me a chance."
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"content": "Thank you. The Member for West Mugirango, Hon. Stephen Mogaka."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance. At the outset, I express my support for this Bill and congratulate the sponsor, Hon. Kimilu, for a well–thought–out and well-crafted Bill. As a lawyer, I know that unless a profession is defined, its registration provided for in law and a legal framework for the operation of that profession is provided for by law, then the practitioners do so in vanity. I want to thank the sponsor of this Bill for making that legal framework happen. I urge my colleagues to support this Bill. Social workers have been working voluntarily. In fact, many of them have been carrying the tag ‘social worker’ without any clear definition of what is social work. I know in hospitals, prisons, society and even in our faith-based organisations, we have volunteers who do a lot of social work. This Bill provides a framework for mainstreaming all social workers so that they are recognised in the law, and their certification provided for and protected. This will also create a mechanism for us to distil the professionals from quacks. Many at times, people masquerade as professionals, whether medics, lawyers or social workers, and bring those professions into disrepute. This Bill will now sift the professionals and separate them from the pretenders so that, that profession is recognised. I thank the Hon. Member for bringing this Bill during the 13th Parliament. It is during a Government whose Manifesto outlines that every hustle matters. Indeed, social workers are hustlers in their own right and until now, there was no legal framework for their hustle to be recognised. Therefore, this Bill is properly aligned with the Manifesto of the Government of the day. It would be falling on fertile land. It is my prayer that this Bill gets assented to and becomes an Act of Parliament, so that the social workers hustlers can also find protection in the law. 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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