{"id":20630,"date":"2013-12-15T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oece.nz\/?p=20630"},"modified":"2022-09-25T16:06:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T04:06:18","slug":"profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oece.nz\/public\/news-and-views\/stories\/profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Early Childhood Services Are Making a Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
2013 Survey of Income, Expenditure and Fees of Early Childhood Education Providers. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A new Ministry of Education report suggests that most services are earning more money than they spend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While the costs of caring for children in early childhood services have been rising faster than the level of income received, most services are still making a surplus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other findings included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The report is titled “2013 Survey of Income, Expenditure and Fees of Early Childhood Education Providers”. It is available on the Ministry’s education counts website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The survey collected information on costs, income, assets and liabilities, fees and voluntary work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Services were not required to provide their financial data for the survey. Those who did were 24% of all childcare centres, 82% of all kindergartens, 37% of all home-based ECE agencies, 51% of all Playcentres, and 97% of all Kohanga Reo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Ministry’s reason for running the survey was “to make sure we have quality information to advise Ministers about the pressures that services face”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n UPDATE:\u00a0 The cost drivers survey was last carried out in 2015 but the Ministry of Education have decided to not process and make the results available. It is discontinuing the survey as a publication series.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n