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Health and Safety Management

Children Screaming – Risk to Adult and Child Hearing

How a child screaming can hurt adult ears

What did you say? I can’t hear you. I’m cuddling a circular saw!

By James Lochead-Macmillan.

Most research into screaming children focuses on the production of the stress hormone Cortisol.

What is significantly less reported is how dangerous that screaming child is to their car

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Employer Guides and Staff Management

Performance Appraisals for Early Childhood Staff and Managers

The Teaching Council no longer requires teachers to participate in an appraisal process – this requirement was replaced with a Professional Growth Cycle requirement.

However, the Ministry of Education’s licensing criteria that sits alongside the Education (Early Childhood Services) Regulations requires that services have processes for human resource management; including “a system of regular appraisal” (GMA6 home-based; GMA7 education and care centres; GMA7 playcentres; GMA7 kōhanga reo; GMA7 hospital-based).

The templates and guidance provided here covers performance appraisals for managers who may also be the service owner, and teaching staff (including unqualified and qualified staff).

This article also covers

How to conduct a performance appraisal, the process involved and 6 simple steps to follow

Tips for setting the scene properly and conducting the performance review effectively.

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Health and Safety Management

First Aid Qualifications and Staffing Requirements – All ECE Services

Number of first aid qualified staff and which staff must be first aid qualified in which services

From 26 February 2024, all persons designated the ‘person responsible’ in teacher-led education and care centres, including kindergartens must hold a first aid qualification from a training provider recognised by New Zealand Qualifications Authority

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Policies and Procedures

Immunisation and Infectious Diseases Policy and Procedures

Here is a template for centres and home-based to use for their Immunisation and Infectious Diseases Policy and Procedures. The Infectious Diseases Chart is also available here, and it can be included in your policy folder, in family enrolment packs, and displayed on staff noticeboards.

Infectious Diseases Chart

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Financial Management and Record Keeping

Strategies Services are Using to Improve their Financial Outlook

Financial Improvement of Struggling ECE Services.

On this page you can find out what centres and home-based services are doing in respect of:

fees,staffing,ways that they are cutting back on spending (or not),marketing approaches and new markets being targeted, and

The insight this provides will be helpful for everyone who is seeking to i

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Internal Evaluation, Self-Review and Staff Meetings

Record of Meetings – Writing the Minutes

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

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