Regulation review: How recommendations by the Office of Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Council and Ministry for Regulation compared

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The Office of Early Childhood Education has compared how our submission, and that of the ECC, compared with the Ministry for Regulation’s final conclusions related to the review of licensing criteria and certain regulations for the sector.

This includes:
> all licensing criteria
> teacher qualification
> pay parity salary attestation
> person responsible
> door handle height
> MoE complaints process and visits.

We found that the Ministry’s recommendations lined up with those of the ECC for 55 of the 98 criteria/regulations.

We’ve put together the below searchable table so that you can compare the recommendations each party made.

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