{"id":6933,"date":"2011-08-05T16:45:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T04:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oece.nz\/general\/news-for-early-childhood-education\/minister-ece-taskforce-playcentre\/"},"modified":"2021-07-26T16:36:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T04:36:10","slug":"minister-ece-taskforce-playcentre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oece.nz\/public\/news-and-views\/stories\/minister-ece-taskforce-playcentre\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministerial ECE Taskforce Causes Divisions in Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
ECE Taskforce. The ECE Taskforce has caused fear and division in the early childhood sector. For the national government this is a good thing. It will be easier, and faster to reshape the sector into its vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just days away from the close of submissions on the ECE Taskforce Report recommendations, the political agenda behind appointing only representatives from teacher-led ECE centres and not from playcentre, kohanga reo, and home-based ECE was revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First Education Minister Anne Tolley said she was disappointed there was some scaremongering over the future of Playcentres and Kohanga Reo. Then she announced funding would not be cut from playcentre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is a significant promise going into the general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Playcentre has been effective in a running a campaign (which Labour picked up on) that could be seen as leading Mrs Tolley to give\u00a0her assurances on funding for parent-led services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
August 5, 2011. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n