Every year, ACC accepts around 10,000 claims for injuries that happen at early childhood education services, costing between $8 million and $9 million in total.
The Office of Early Childhood Education’s chief advisor Dr Sarah Alexander says she’d like to see mahi from authorities to reduce injuries occurring in ECE.
She says the statistics are evidence that the current health and safety requirements in ECE aren’t up to scratch.
She is worried that with the relaxing of health and safety requirements from the regulation overhaul to support service operators to have less compliance, child injury rates will continue to increase annually.
