The 2023 ECE Quality and Employment Survey reveals what what is happening inside early childhood services – from quality concerns to daily pressures that affect children and staff. It’s essential reading for anyone who wants an honest, evidence‑based picture of the state of ECE.
Early Childhood Education Services Go Unchecked, Harming the Performance of the Sector and Potentially Putting Children at Risk. Monday, 5 September 2022. So far this
The formula to produce quality early childhood education that is remarkable for children reflects over thirty years of research into factors important for effective teaching
Research on health and wellbeing of Pacific children in NZ early childhood education, and factors that impede or enable better health and wellbeing. Read the full paper below. Or to order a pdf copy of the article go to the main NZIRECE Journal page.
This article on an “Agenda for Quality” by Dr Sarah Alexander extends on one originally published by the NZ Herald, March 3, 2017. There’s a
This report highlights clear differences in teacher wellbeing, stability, and children’s daily experiences between private and community ECE services.
Here are the findings on the quality of ECE for children from the perspective of teachers from the 2020 ECE Quality, Safety, and Workforce Survey.
These two papers explore the rise and reality of early childhood centre charters – promoted as the key to improving quality, but often experienced as a bureaucratic burden. Together, they reveal how the “Purple People‑Eater” process shaped centre practice, strained relationships, and exposed deep tensions between policy intentions and on‑the‑ground realities.
This article explains why male teachers must be able to carry out all caregiving tasks, including nappy changing, and sets out how men can respond if an employer says they cannot, and how services can respond when parents request “only female staff.”
This story uncovers how a chemical‑burn incident at a Kindercare centre was not just a one‑off mistake but the result of systemic failures in safety, oversight, and regulation. See how both WorkSafe and the Ministry of Education allowed these risks to go unchecked, and what it means for children’s safety in ECE.
The ECE funding review proposals shift money toward large commercial daycare, cuts pay parity, reshapes equity funding, and overlooks quality, affordability, and small service sustainability.
The Auditor‑General has confirmed what the Office of Early Childhood Education (OECE) uncovered last year: the Government’s Free Food in Early Childhood Education Programme was built on a flawed contracting process that left only one organisation, KidsCan, in a position to receive the $8 million grant.
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