Why the ECE free lunches contract is under scrutiny OPINION/ANALYSIS. June 18, 2025. Associate Minister of Education David Seymour was in talks with KidsCan about potential funding for the organisation’s mahi supplying early childhood education centres with free food months before the Government announced plans to expand its healthy lunches programme to ECE services, which … Continue reading Why the Government’s ECE free lunches contract with KidsCan is under scrutiny