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December 2025 – Service Provider Member Newsletter

This year has been one of the toughest I’ve seen in my more than 40 years in the early childhood sector. Between ongoing policy consultations and sector changes, rising operating costs, and the added strain of the cost of living on families, you’ve had a great deal to manage — and you’ve done it with commitment and care. Your resilience, creativity and steady leadership are vital to your service’s success and the support you provide to families.

If there’s any way we can support you over the summer or as we move into 2026, please reach out — we’re here to help.

Below are practical reminders and resources to help you finish the year well and plan confidently for 2026.

What’s been happening

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Learnings from Serious Incidents

Head Injury Suffered by Toddler on Concrete Ground in Mid-Winter

For an outline of key facts read our article: Nelson’s fall: Parents still don’t know how their toddler hit his head on concrete and had a brain injury at childcare

We’ve reviewed the centre manager’s report of the incident, Ministry of Education communications, Worksafe report, and lawyer correspondence. The learning we’ve taken is:

Don’t take children outside until the outdoor playground safety check is completed and ticked/signed.

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Health and Safety Management

Daylight Saving is here – what you need to know to support tamariki over this period

Losing an hour of sleep can be hard on your body clock.

So it’s no surprise that young children can seem particularly grumpy and out of sorts at the start of the daylight saving period. 

In Aotearoa, daylight saving begins on the last Sunday of September, when 2am becomes 3am.

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Policies and Procedures

How Necessary is it to have Written Policies and what Shortcuts can be taken?

Early childhood service policies on everything are not always needed and are certainly not required.

Managers and early childhood service staff can easily get caught up in a sea of paper-work, that includes writing and reviewing policies in particular if they do not know the following.

Did you know that every service must have a written chi

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Policies and Procedures

How to write a policy

How to write a policy on anything or topic for your early childhood service.

What needs to be included in a written policy.

Answers to your questions such as how often you need to review policy.

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Policies and Procedures

Trauma Policy

A policy template for early childhood education services on how they will respond to and manage traumatic incidents, with concern for the impact on staff, children, families, and the operation of the service. 

Traumatic incidents include death, serious injury, abuse, disasters such as earthquakes, intruder and violent incidents, and lockdowns.  

See a news article here about traumatic incidents at ECE services, to learn the nature of various incidents that may occur.

Traumatic incidents may occur at the service or outside of the service, and are witnessed or experienced by one or more children and adults who are part of the service.

1. Title: Trauma Policy

2. Policy statement

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