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Policies and Procedures

Social and Emotional Competence Policy

Promoting Social and Emotional Competence Policy and Procedures.

Rationale:

This policy and accompanying procedures will help us to ensure our curriculum and teaching practice supports the development of children’s social competence and understanding of appropriate behaviour in our service. 

Regulations and key references:

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Curriculum Policy

Use and adapt the following curriculum policy to suit your service and meet regulatory requirements.

Your curriculum policy must be consistent with the curriculum framework and be informed by assessment, planning, and evaluation (documented and undocumented) that demonstrates an understanding of children’s learning, their interests, whānau, and life contexts.

As well as providing a curriculum policy template for you, we’ve included the questions the Ministry of Education commonly asks and focuses on when it is checking an ECE service’s curriculum policy and implementation.

RATIONALE:
To ensure the process of planning, evaluating and delivering a localised curriculum is consistent with

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Right of Entry Policy

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

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Collection of Children Policy

Here is a policy and set of procedures for the Collection of Children that you may use and adapt for your early childhood service. Services are responsible for upholding children’s safety at all times. This includes responsibility for ensuring the safety of children leaving the premises.

Reflective questions

Considering reflective questi

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Emergency Management Policy, Procedures, and Supplies

Here is a sample emergency management policy template, covering different emergencies such as fire, flooding, terrorist or armed offender, and natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic activity, and tsunamis. 

We also show you what you might put in a sample emergency plan, emergency procedures (including drills), and an emergency sup

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Raising Concerns – Complaints Policy

Does your early childhood service have a well-written, well thought-out complaints policy? Getting it right is essential to support people to raise their concerns and avoid situations escalating and further problems.

Waiho i te toipoto, kaua i te toiroa.  Let us keep close together, not far apart

Regulatory requirements and Te Whāriki

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