The regional Curriculum Support Officers for Special Needs Education (CSoSNE) have expressed frustration after the TSC paid them the same allowances as colleagues who trained locally, despite attending regional training sessions.
The officers who always attended Trainer of Trainers (TOTs) training regionally and later retrained teachers at the county level lamented that they are being mistreated by not being given per diem allowances after travelling and spending nights outside their counties.
“In the April’s ToT’s training, an officer from TSC promised us that the Cemastea allowance schedule would be applied for CsoSNE who trained regionally, but to our utter shock, we are again paid as though we trained within our counties. This is totally unacceptable!” quipped Fiona Mwaluma from Nyanza.
The officers had registered their concerns to the commission early this year over what they term as non-consideration in a number of aspects in their working environment.
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Education News has learnt that, despite covering the whole sub-county, just like the sub-county directors, the officers are not yet facilitated to move around. They are expected to carry out learner assessment, stakeholder sensitisation, teacher training, and support across the sub-county.
Worse still, the officers are reportedly not entitled to a special allowance, unlike the teachers they supervise in special schools and units.
It is also reported that the officers have registered complaints over underpayment in April’s retooling allowances with their county coordinators, who are spread over the 47 counties.
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The officers have also requested that TSC decentralise their training to the county level to avoid them travelling far and spending a lot on accommodation, only to be treated as though they never travelled.
The officers who spoke to Education News further said that such incidents of underpayment and unfavourable working conditions are the main sources of demotivation among the commission’s employees. They implored the acting CEO to address the rising demotivation among the field officers urgently.
By Naboth Murunga
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