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This submission responds to the Committee’s invitation to provide views
Every morning I would feel overwhelmed by the noise level
Who is Who and Does What in Relation to the
SUDI Sudden Unexplained Death of an Infant.
Should an infant at your early childhood service die in their sleep how would you feel?
You might consider there was nothing you could do to prevent this from happening – that if it was going to happen it was going to happen whether or not the baby was in its parents’ care or your care.
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“Shaping our Future”: The submission to the Ministry for Regulation of a grouping of service providers and their representatives.
A group of service providers and lobby groups want ECE services to be left to run themselves as they see fit.
They made a submission, titled “Shaping our Future” to the Ministry for Regulation calling for a self-regulation and monitoring scheme – the object of which would be to ensure that regulatory responsibility is not concentrated in the hands of the Ministry of Education (or any other government agency).
They include NZ Kindergartens Inc, Te Rito Maioha, Barnardos, a Home Base Childcare Association, and a group led by Kelly Seaburg (New Shoots) which has some of NZ’s biggest private operators like Busy Bees, Kindercare, and Evolve Education.
Research on literacy practices for infants and toddlers (children under 3 years) in early childhood education and parent and educator understandings. Read the full paper below. Or to order a pdf copy of the article go to the main NZIRECE Journal page.
NZ Research on what happened when children in early childhood centres were supported to document their own views using a camera. Read the full paper below. Or to order a pdf copy of the article go to the main NZIRECE Journal page.
This explains why and how to keep a record of meetings and what to record when writing the minutes.
Why take Minutes
Keeping a record of meetings, by writing the minutes of the meeting, allows the time spent in a meeting to be productive, by stopping the same discussions and topics coming up that have already been well threshold. Records
Better Committee Meetings.
“Not another time-waster meeting!” – have you heard a comment like this?
I have observed and participated in some great committee and board meetings at early childhood services and no meeting has to be a time-waster or boring.
It can be done.
You can bring energy, heart, managem
Summary The Office of Early Childhood Education (OECE) welcomes the opportunity to comment on the draft Education (Early Childhood Services) Amendment Regulations 2025, which aim
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