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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 opportunity to comment on the draft Education (Early Childhood Services) Amendment Regulations 2025, which aim

Child playing with toy dinosaurs while a girl looks on the shelves for more toy animals at their early childhood centre.

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The ECE service that keeps breaching regulations – What 10 years of data tells us

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.

In the Media

In the media: OECE helps raise awareness of toddler’s brain injury

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

Bang, bang, bang - toddler beats drum at early childhood centre.

Downgraded ECE Providers—Yearly Lists and Breach Records

Which ECE Services Breached Regulations in 2025 and Received a Licence Downgrade, Suspended, or Shut Down

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.

Hospital Play specialist, Chole Davidson

Best Career Stories

Chloe Davidson – Hospital Play Specialist

Chloe Davidson – Hospital Play Specialist Chloe started her career as an Early Childhood Teacher in 2011, working in a range of different settings and

Teaching Resources & Operational Business Support Services

NZ Childcare Finance: Supporting Cash Flow Between Bulk Funding Payments

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

One-year-old finds chairs at kindergarten table are high and hard to get onto.

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Parents made many complaints to the Ministry through the MyECE parents’ website

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

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the importance of touch as part of caregiving and teaching children

Teaching Resources & Operational Business Support Services

Early Reading Together – Handbook and Kit for Parent Workshops

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

regulation breaches compliance requirements standard

Speaking-Up Articles

Compliance checks by the Ministry of Education are a necessary good, not a burden

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.

young children at marae - Maori performance

Quality Teaching & NZ's Te Whāriki Curriculum

Explainer: Two Curriculum Paths — Te Ara Whānui and Te Ara Māori

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.

Survey Reports, Sector Data, & Ministerial Reports

Early Childhood Sector Confidence Survey Results 2025

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

Scholarly Research Journal Article Database - NZIRECE

NZ International Research in Early Childhood Education Journal

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

many colours of paint concept for early childhood sector groups and early childhood education system

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Who is Who in the Sector and List of Contacts

Who is Who and Does What in Relation to the ECE Sector & Contacts Teacher Organisations and Associations NZEI – Union for the industrial interests

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Playcentre Aotearoa

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

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Federation of Rudolf Steiner Schools

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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