The Staff and Teacher Survey for licensed early childhood services
What do staff at your centre or home-based service really think about their job, and the quality of provision for children?
The survey is for licensed early childhood services.
The results are completely anonymous for employees and confidential to the service provider.
Should you have more than one licensed service, results can be aggregated and provided for your organisation or group. Alternatively, you can request individual reports of results for each licence.
Benefits of the ECE Staff and Teacher Survey
- Provides a snapshot of what your workers think about their job, their working conditions, and their ECE service quality.
- Gives workers a forum for expressing their views with absolute anonymity. As a service provider, this helps you to know what’s really going on that you may not otherwise hear from your employees and senior leaders and managers.
- Provides an opportunity to gather data to:
- Aid your planning and decision-making for improving practices.
- Help strengthen your service’s reputation as an employer of choice.
- Use to continue to build your service’s reputation as a provider of early childhood education and care.
Staff and Teacher Survey for Early Childhood Services Options
Choose who you want survey – you may choose one, two, or all three groups:
- General staff (such as office administrators and cooks).
- Teaching staff only (full-time, part-time, permanent employees, regular casual or relief staff, and any contractors such as educators who work in their own home.)
- Service managers and senior leaders (this is suitable for larger organisations with multiple ECE service licences).
Because of the anonymous nature of the survey, services need at least 10 people in a group to do the survey for a group/s report.
Survey procedure and process
The survey is online. Service providers are responsible for providing their workers with the survey link and encouraging participation.
The survey asks workers to rate and add comments on items in six areas:
- Relations with other workers (co-workers, supervisor and manager)
- Satisfaction with the job and with the work itself
- Working conditions
- Pay and promotion or leadership opportunities
- The quality of the service for children
- Service organisation and practices
Items in the survey are international research-based for job satisfaction, work environment, and quality for children.
Staff Survey for Early Childhood Services Cost Structure
Price for sitting online surveys
Early childhood services will pay a survey subscription depending upon the number of staff (staff can include self-employed home-based educators):
- Band A, 10 – 30 workers: $300.00
- Band B, 31 – 200 workers: $450.00
- Band C, 201 – 600 workers: $650.00
- Band D, more than 600 workers: $850.00
Early childhood services that require separate reports for each service licence in their organisation or for more than one group of workers
- Add $45.00 per second and each additional licence and/or group.
AN EXAMPLE: SmileyTamariki ECE has two licensed services and 29 workers. It is in Band A – subscription $300. It has requested separate reports for its two licences so this brings the total price to $345.00.
Fortunately, SmileyTamariki ECE is a member of the OECE so it receives 50% discount and pays only $172.50.
50% discount on total cost is available to all eligible members of the OECE. (Not a member? Learn more: How to Join).
Eligibility criteria are: a service provider membership that has at least 6 months or more to run.
How to access the Staff and Teacher Survey
Please contact our team to subscribe (go to our contact us page). We will send you a form to complete with your details and then get your survey started.
Note that the survey itself and the individual questions are protected by copyright law and should not be copied or used elsewhere or for other purposes. Payment is required before the survey starts. Should you decide not to implement the survey after signing up to it, no refund will be made.
