New data shows a dramatic decline in regulatory action against
The ECE sector has delivered an unexpected bright spot in
A young child was left alone in a locked early
Who is Who and Does What in Relation to the
Designing an ECE Research Study. By Claire McLachlan.
Abstract: Designing and carrying out research in the area of early childhood education is one that is attempted by many, including experienced and beginning researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate students as well as by people working in a range of different early childhood servi
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The minimum adult wage for a worker in NZ is $23.95 an hour (from 1 April 2026). The 2026/27 Living Wage rate is $29.90. Keep reading for information specific to pay rates in the early childhood sector.
Regulations require that certain groups of people, including parents, union staff, and public officials, have a right of entry to the early childhood service under certain conditions, and set out the responsibilities of the early childhood service.
Below is a Right of Entry Policy and a set of procedures for different situations. Adapt and re-w
All early childhood service providers are required under the regulations (Health and Safety Practices criterion) to make sure that:
No person on the premises uses, or is under the influence of, alcohol or any other substance that has a detrimental effect on their functioning or behaviour during the service’s hours of operation.
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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.
Parent does not want Male Teacher.
An early childhood centre manager asks:
After informing our parents that 2 new teachers had been appointed for the start of term, a mother said she did not want one of these teachers, a man, to have any contact with her daughter and that she must never be in the same group with him. We agreed to her
Are ECE services truly funded for only up to 6 hours in a day based on licensed child-places? Some people think so. Others say no,
Five years after Olivia Xu and Elmer Zhang’s son Nelson suffered a brain injury – he was found laying on a concrete path at his early childhood centre, the couple are still in the dark about what happened and what caused the injury.
Did he slip on an icy path? they wonder. Did another child push him?
They’ll probably never know what happened.
The two teachers who were on duty in the playground of the under 2-year-old area at the Centre that freezing morning on July 27, 2020 told investigators they did not see Nelson fall because they were busy with other children.
The couple have spent $60,000 on lawyers to try to get more information about the circumstances that led up to their then-14-month-old son being in a critical condition.
They’ve been told that their only option now would be to hire a private detective.
Emotions are still raw for Xu when she recalls rushing to Nelson’s daycare after being told he’d been injured, and seeing her little boy, who had been well when she dropped him off less than an hour earlier, lying on a nappy change mat unresponsive as one of his teachers administered first aid.
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