A section of ECDE teachers is pointing fingers at the Governors for partially implementing the ECDE schemes of service for teachers.

According to the teachers, the governors are only placing ECDE teachers in the counties on permanent and pensionable terms and not implementing the salary components as agreed.

The new scheme of service dictate that the lowest teacher (job group F) who is a certificate holder, should earn sh. 21,950 as gross pay.

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Those with Diploma are placed in job group G and should be paid a gross salary of sh. 34,395 while graduates are placed in group K and are to earn sh. 46,494 monthly.

An ECDE teacher from Nyandarua confirmed that though his county has done good to place 381 teachers on permanent terms the salary paid is against the scheme of service.

In May, Nyandarua county moved a total of 381 ECDE teachers on permanent and pensionable terms.

The teachers were employed on a permanent and pensionable basis and each will earn Sh10,000 monthly.

This however is against the scheme of service that was approved by the Council of Governors (CoG) together with Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC).

Kisumu County Governor Prof. Anyang Nyong’o upgraded the status of 665 ECDE teachers who were serving on contracts.

They are now employed on permanent and pensionable terms by the County Public Service Board in Kisumu and were issued with confirmatory letters of appointment.

However, the governor did not fully implement the scheme of service despite doubling the salaries of the teachers from the 684 ECDE centres located in the county.

On 27th May 2022 Migori governor, Zachary Okoth Obado, moved a total of 589 ECDE teachers in his counties on a permanent and pensionable terms.

Obado too did not fully implement the scheme of service for ECDE teachers to include the required salaries.

Its same story with other counties including Taita Taveta, Bomet, Nyeri, Makueni, Kitui, Baringo, Nandi, Laikipia, Uasin Gishu, Homabay, Embu, Narok, Kericho, Kilifi and Wajir.

The scheme of service came to life after the ECDE bill which was first tabled in 2014 was passed by the Senate and assented by President Uhuru Kenyatta last year.

Some teachers have however praised this move saying its a step towards the right direction. They are hopeful that the next step will be to implement the new salary component.

The Kisumu county government has employed 665 early childhood development education (ECDE) teachers on permanent and pensionable terms.

Governor Anyang Nyong’o said the teachers drawn from the seven sub-counties have been serving on a contract basis.

Nyong’o presided over the issuance of permanent and pensionable service letters to the teachers at the County Public Service Board office on Friday.

He lauded the teachers for working diligently to give academic nourishment to the children.

“As a reward for the good job they have done to our children, my Cabinet has decided to put all of them on permanent and pensionable terms,” Nyong’o said.

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“We have done this to motivate and enable the teachers to plan well as they realise their career development. You will no longer be worried about the renewal of your contracts.”

The teachers are now creditworthy and access loans for personal development.

Nyong’o said the employment has been done in strict observance of labour laws and all relevant legal statutes.

This, he said, was also in line with the resolutions of the Council of Governors (COG) in the ECDE sector.

Nyong’o said Kisumu joins Busia, Nyandarua, Nakuru and Bungoma counties that have their ECD teachers engaged on permanent and pensionable terms.

He pointed out that the management of Pre-primary Education in Kenya is placed under the county government as outlined in the Fourth Schedule of the constitution of Kenya 2010.

The Early Childhood Education Act 2021 in its entirety further outlines the involvement of the County Governments in terms of health and rights to Early Childhood Education.

In Kisumu County, there are 684 ECD centres of which 627 are anchored in Primary Schools and 57 are stand-alone public ECD centres.

The public ECD centres have a total enrolment of 52,818 children of whom 26,003 are girls and 26,815 are boys.

Nyong’o said his government has undertaken various measures to develop the sector and to ensure the foundational education is deeply entrenched.

He said the county has maintained support for the school feeding program by supplying rice and oil to all the ECD centres to complement the efforts of parents.

The intervention is aimed at improving their learning performance in schools through increased enrolment, retention, completion rate and 100 percent transition.

They also invested in the construction of standard classrooms with teachers’ rooms and toilets for the ECD children to learn in a good environment.

He pointed out that 60 percent of all schools have ECDE classes built by the County Government and very soon all the Centres will have classrooms constructed.

Nyong’o said the county has given priority to good sanitation to young learners to keep off diseases that crop in due to non-observance of hygiene.

He said the county’s health department undertakes vaccination against diseases, deworming and provision of vitamin A supplements half-yearly in all the ECD Centres.

The county also provides capitation to young learners to ensure quality education is achieved.

“It is also our responsibility to ensure quality education is accessible to our children through the distribution of stationery,” Nyong’o said.

He stated that they have supplied textbooks, exercise books, pencils, sharpeners and erasers to children in schools.

The county, he said, has distributed chairs and tables to ECD centres countywide to ensure children learn in a conducive environment.

He said the workforce is coordinated by officers at the county, sub-county and ward levels.

He outlined that his administration was committed to making Early Childhood education vibrant, saying it was the strongest foundation for education in society.

“Because of the great job the ECDE teachers were doing, I doubled their salaries, making them some of the best-paid teachers across the country,” he said.

Nyong’o urged teachers to exercise professionalism and decorum while discharging their duties of nurturing the young Kenyans.

“You will be under probation for six months and during this period your immediate supervisor will assess your suitability to continue serving, advise for extension of probation or termination of the contract,” he said.

He told the teachers to prove that his cabinet and the Public Service Board did not make a mistake by giving them permanent and pensionable terms.

“As role models in society, the children under your care depend on you for cognitive, social and spiritual development. Facilitate this to make Kisumu comparable to none,” Nyong’o said.

A whopping 28,300 ECDE tutors are working on contract while a paltry 13,502 are teaching on permanent basis.

This was revealed by the Senate Education Committee Chaired by Alice Milgo.The committee had been investigating reports that most counties pay the pre-primary school tutors below the gazetted government minimum wage which is against Early Childhood Development Education ACT 2021.

The Act stipulates that all county public service boards should remunerate the ECDE tutors according to the said scheme of service.

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The committee noted that the county government employ tutors on poor terms with some earning as low as Sh7,000 while the highest is paid Sh40,000 and in order to marry the difference the committee directed the county governments to engage a budgetary provision to effect the salary increment within the next 60 days.

In this respect,the county governors asked the national government for grants up to the tune of Sh4.3 billion per year from the national treasury to pay ECDE tutors.

The county government chiefs through the Council of Governors said that the provision of yearly grants of Sh2,292 per learner will enable them to effectively fulfil the terms agreed in the scheme of service to the ECDE tutors.

Embu Governor Martin Wambora who is Chairman of the Council of Governors told the Senate Education Committee that their are 1,916,690 ECDE learners in their respective centres who would be able to raise the said Sh4.39 billion.

The report further revealed that the best paying counties are Mandera,Garissa,Embu,Turkana,Kajiado,Kilifi,Kwale,Kiambu,Kisumu,Nairobi and Bungoma and on the other hand,the ten worst paying counties are Kericho,Baringo,Nyandarua,Nandi,Kitui,Laikipia,and Uasin Gishu.