
Critique of Draft Education (Early Childhood Services) Amendment Regulations 2025 over Child Safety and Enforcement Gap
Summary The Office of Early Childhood Education (OECE) welcomes the
Summary The Office of Early Childhood Education (OECE) welcomes the
Twenty one ECE services have had their licences downgraded for
OECE helps raise awareness of toddler’s brain injury IN THE
Who is Who and Does What in Relation to the
Summary The Office of Early Childhood Education (OECE) welcomes the opportunity to comment on the draft Education (Early Childhood Services) Amendment Regulations 2025, which aim
Twenty one ECE services have had their licences downgraded for breaching regulations on four or more occasions in the last decade – and 33 services have spent more than a year on a provisional and/or suspended licence, an analysis by the Office of Early Childhood Education of nearly 10 years’ worth of data shows.
View the interactive tables with service names, see the patterns, and read the analysis to learn what is going on.
One service stands out on both lists.
OECE helps raise awareness of toddler’s brain injury IN THE MEDIAOctober 12, 2025 This week, The Press and The Post published a story about how
To support transparency and accountability in the early childhood sector, the OECE publishes an annual list of ECE services that, at any point during the year, had their licence changed by the Ministry, due to regulatory breaches.
Chloe Davidson – Hospital Play Specialist Chloe started her career as an Early Childhood Teacher in 2011, working in a range of different settings and
Bridging the Gap: Smart Finance for ECE Operators. An advertorial for NZ Childcare Finance. Running an ECE centre or homebased centre is about so much
Parents and caregivers of tamariki in ECE made 80 complaints to the Ministry of Education through the confidential online service on the MyECE website last year.
MyECE is the official website of the ECE Parents’ Council. The council is a volunteer-run, grassroots organisation that
Offer the Early Reading Together Programme to Families at Your ECE Service Early Reading Together® meets the need of service providers and teachers for an
Compliance checks are a necessary good, not a burden This opinion article is published as part of our ‘Speaking-up‘ series By Bonnie Te Ara Henare.
In 2023 a notice published in the Government Gazette introduced new requirements regarding the Curriculum Framework and its implementation which came into effect on May 1, 2024.
ECE sector’s Government confidence at an all-time low, OECE survey results for 2025 show. Every year the Office of Early Childhood Education (OECE) surveys 1000
The NZIRECE Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research results, critiques, methodological papers and theoretical articles relating to children’s education, wellbeing and care
Who is Who and Does What in Relation to the ECE Sector & Contacts Teacher Organisations and Associations NZEI – Union for the industrial interests
There are two iconic NZ early childhood organisations that continue to hold onto their original purpose and philosophy, these are Playcentre Aotearoa and Nga Kōhanga
The Federation of Rudolf Steiner Schools represents early childhood centres that work out of the educational indications developed by Austrian philosopher and scientist Rudolf Steiner.
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