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Waiting times for early childhood education have dropped across the
Guidance, policy and funding information, and resources for everyone!
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The Code of Conduct applies to all licensed early childhood services throughout NZ Aotearoa, including centre-based, home-based, and hospital-based.
Early Reading Together® supports ECE teachers to run effective literacy workshops that strengthen how families talk, read, and learn together. This proven, research‑based programme is practical, enjoyable, and gives services simple, powerful ways to boost children’s early language and reading development.
The ECE Parent Survey is designed for use in any licensed ECE service, including centres, home-based, and hospital-based services.
Parents can do the survey anonymously. The results are confidential to your service.
The early childhood education services identified with compliance failures and subject to regulator actions in 2025. This includes the full list of named ECE services and key insights into regulatory responses and sector oversight.
Packing a lunch‑box can feel overwhelming when you’re trying to meet ECE food‑safety rules and still send food your child will happily eat. This guide gives you clear, practical tips that remove the guesswork and help you feel confident your child’s lunch is safe, nutritious, and fully ECE‑ready.
The Structural Indicators of Quality ECE By Dr Sarah Alexander. Research on quality from a developmental psychology perspective has focused on the structural features of
The national three-yearly ECE Quality and Employment Survey gives a clear snapshot of what ECE teachers across NZ report about their workplaces and the quality of care children receive. It’s essential reading for anyone wanting an accurate picture of real sector conditions and the issues shaping ECE.
Te Whāriki – NZ’s Early Childhood Curriculum Many people, parents and primary school teachers included, may be unaware that in early childhood services we provide
Working in early childhood education and care is a high risk occupation for communicable disease – for acquiring or transmitting vaccine-preventable diseases.
The journal is indexed in Scopus and available internationally through Informit, as well as through New Zealand tertiary libraries and many university libraries internationally.
View the interactive tables with service names, see the patterns, and read the analysis to learn what is going on.
Funding Rates for Early Childhood Education Services in New Zealand 2026 Services need to understand funding rates so they can plan their budgets, staffing, and
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