State urged to increase budgetary allocation to social service workforce

Child Welfare Services Principal Secretary Caren Agen'go and Teso South MP Mary Emase during the unveiling of findings of a new investment case for Kenya's child protection workforce in Nairobi, on April 30, 2025. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

The government has called for increased investment in the social service workforce to enhance child protection

This, it emerged, will expand and strengthen the social service workforce and reduce the cost of child protection in the country by 2.54 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), equivalent to Sh308.5 billion every year.