INCLUSIVE CHILD FRIENDLY SCHOOLS

The study addressed implementation of inclusive child friendly primary schools policy in Nyandarua County, Kenya. The Inclusive Child Friendly Schools (CFS) policy provides quality education for all children in school by creating a learning environment where all children can learn, all children want to learn, and all children feel included in the classrooms and schools. However, studies show that the conditions in schools are not adequately adapted to accommodate diversity of learners and even many more children of school going age are still left out of school due to factors like ill health, poverty, livelihoods, school based factors, inaccessibility and HIV and AIDS. These challenges generated the objectives of the study. To achieve these objectives, the study utilized a descriptive survey using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Based on the study findings, the study presented a number of policy recommendations including adopting CFS policy to internal contexts so that individual schools look for ways of developing and utilizing self-assessment indicators of CFS at the school levels.