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Advertising and Marketing / Promotion

The Risks of Implicitly Endorsing Third Party Schemes to Parents

Endorsing Third Party Schemes and Products.

What happens when parents see flyers / pamphlets and posters displayed in the entrance way of ECE services or when advertising material is sent home in children’s bags?  

These might be from the Ministry of Education to promote the choices that it wants parents to make, or a new government scheme

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Health and Safety Management

Health and Safety at Work Act Requirements

This is an easy to read summary and early childhood friendly perspective on the Health and Safety at Work Act. It also points to specific implications for centres, home-based and franchised ECE operations of the new H&S Act.

Expectations

This Act means that ECE owners/directors/managers/senior leaders can’t escape from being accountable

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Health and Safety Management

Electrical Testing

The importance of electrical testing.

Is your early childhood education service compliant for electrical safety?  It needs to be:

Failure of electrical wiring or appliances is one of the most common causes of house and building fires – which could be devastating financially for your service, personally for everyone affected, and eve

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Health and Safety Management

Power Cut – No Electricity

A power cut – oh no! What do you do? Should you send children home?

If the power goes off again, what can you do to be better prepared? 

How can you make the best out of a nuisance situation?

Here are some answers. 

When there is no danger to children and adults there is no need to evacuate.

A power cut is not norma

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Financial Management and Record Keeping

Cashflow Management

Cashflow Management.

How do we cope with huge cash inflows from the MoE three times a year then famine in between?

The simplest way is to put into a separate bank account all the advances received each four months and then transfer it into the normal bank account monthly. You will also need some capital of your own in the bank to cover the c

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Behaviour Management & Social Development

Terminating a Child’s Enrolment Because of Behaviour Issues

When Behaviour Issues Get to be Unmanageable.

A member has asked if her service can legally terminate the enrolment of a child whose behaviour has left other children crying, disrupts the programme, and requires constant individual supervision.

She’s worried what will happen if the parent goes to the local newspaper. She’s worried also about

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