A new bill in Nakuru County, Kenya has been proposed which, if passed, would impose greater restrictions and regulations on children's homes operating in the county, including more stringent health and safety measures and greater requirements for staff vetting, according to this article from the Daily Nation. Among other things, "the Bill has proposed stringent measures for rogue home owners using the desperate children to enrich themselves by soliciting local and international donor funding," says the article. The new Bill would also require children's home operators "to employ trained pre-primary teachers before they are licensed to operate," to maintain appropriate child-staff ratios, and to comply with sanitation and safety measures. According to the article, "after the public participation, the Bill will go through the second and third readings before it is forwarded to Governor Lee Kinyanjui for signing into law."
