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April 8, 2016. Over recent weeks many early childhood service and related organisations received an email requesting a place for a 3 year-old child with
Senior public servants overlooked a duplicated 4 percent funding increase to about 2000 early childhood centres, resulting in more than $20 million in over‑payments. The article outlines how this error went undetected for over a year and the impact of the Ministry of Education’s funding oversight on the sector.
Fewer than half of ECE centres that are eligible for the Government’s free lunch programme have been getting the kai in the early months of the programme, official reports indicate.
Serious safety concerns at an ECE centre went unaddressed for years. This article uncovers how red flags were repeatedly raised, ignored, and allowed to escalate before the licence was finally cancelled. It’s a must‑read for any family wanting to understand how oversight can fail and what that means for children’s safety.
The death of a pet, especially a first pet, can be more traumatic for a child than it is for an adult.
Often the child has grown up with the pet and considers it to be as much a member of the family as the people in their family.
Or if it is an early childhood service pet, a child may have grown very fond of it and rely on it bein
The State of Play in Early Childhood Policy: A Note from Australia.
Frances Press. Charles Sturt University, New South Wales.
Full Reference: Press, F. (2014). The State of Play in Early Childhood Policy: A Note from Australia. NZ Research in Early Childhood Education Journal, 17, 11 – 20.
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