Making the Funding Work for Your Centre.
There are new pay scales for full pay parity. Services that opt into the kindergarten funding rate must attest to paying their teachers the full kindergarten pay scale!
Other funding options linked to no salary attestation requirement (base funding), and ersatz or fake pay parity (oddly given the names by the MoE of “parity” and “extended pay parity funding”) rates will continue to be offered.
Cabinet promised (Budget 2023 announcement) from 1 November 2023 the same funding that kindergartens are paid for full pay parity will also be paid to all centres that opt-in to pay their teachers on the full kindergarten scale.