ECE Participation and Child Outcomes: A Critical Review of the Evidence
This review cuts through political spin to reveal what the strongest evidence actually shows about the effects of ECE. Learn the real benefits and risks…
Is More Intensive Participation in ECE Better for Children, than less?
Is More Intensive Participation in ECE Better for Children? What the Research Says. The methodologically soundest/best research over the past 20 years on the effects of participation…
Allowing Parents to Alleviate their Guilt by Paying for Being Late
Free childcare or charging a fee. By Sarah Alexander. A ground-breaking study, published in January 2000, on providing free childcare or charging a fee…
Parents are Not Amateurs in their Child’s Learning
Parents are not amateurs when it comes to their own children; they hold deep, long-term knowledge built from daily life, shared experiences, and emotional connection.…
Part-day Sessional ECE Care Options Not Supported For Children in NZ ECE System
Sessional ECE. By Sarah Alexander. November 10, 2014. Someday, part-day early childhood education services in NZ are likely to become akin to the moa and…
Government Initiatives To Promote ECE Participation
Government initiatives promoting participation in early childhood education. April 9, 2014. Promoting participation in early childhood education has been a major policy platform under Labour…
Funding Parents, Not Just Childcare Services
Parents overseas are being offered a financial choice to either stay home or use early childhood education, a policy framed as expanding fairness and and…
Living in Poverty – Is the Solution to have Children in Childcare?
Children living in poverty. Report by Reg Ponniah. November 14, 2012. More than 200,000 New Zealand children are suffering from lack of sufficient food, warm…
The Value of Caregiving – Women’s Work as Mothers
The Value of Caregiving. Making Choices: Contradictions and Commonalities in the Valuing of Caring and Working by Government Policy and First Time Mothers. By Ella…
First Time Mothers and their Decisions About The Care of Their Infant
Who Cares for Baby? Women's Preferences. A research paper. What are women’s preferences for the care of their infant? And how are their decisions for…
Infants and Toddlers in Non‑Parental Education and Care: Insights from the Children’s Commissioner Inquiry
The report offers evidence‑based recommendations to strengthen ECE for infants and toddlers, covering funding settings, flexible provision, child health, ratios and group-size, qualified and skilled…
A Working-at-Home Dad, Using Centre and Home-based Care
A Dad's View on Early Childhood Education. By Scott Lancaster. July 14, 2011. As not only a parent but also as someone who works from…
A Mother’s View of The Push to Have Children in ECE
A Mother's View on the Push to Use Early Learning Centres. By Michelle Rush. 2011, Wellington. A reality I am seeing that worries me, is…
“Future for Children” Second National Early Childhood Policy Forum 2011
At the 2011 forum we focused on early childhood education and care policy, and in particular on children’s rights and best interests. The Forum was held…
“Future for Children” First National Early Childhood Policy Forum 2008
Held at the National Library of NZ, Wellington, 2008. A full copy of the Proceedings of the Future for Children Forum, 2008. A copy of…
