Government Policy & Quality Standards
How Is Child Care Quality Ensured?
How quality early childhood education and care is delivered in different settings, and what parents can do if they’re concerned about something.
What You Need to Know About The ERO Rating Process
The Education Review Office (ERO) is responsible for reporting on the education and care of children and young people in early childhood settings.
What matters most in quality early learning
The ERO’s What Matters Most Guide is a useful tool for families considering early education options.
What is the Provider Assessment Group?
What reinstatement of the Provider Assessment Group means for families and how this decision has been received.
Sick days, public holidays and unplanned closure fee policies
Learn why early learning services charge fees for the days when children aren’t in care and for public holidays.
Highlights from the Early Childhood Education Census 2020
Results from the ECE census offer interesting insights into the state of play in NZ’s early education sector, read our summary this week.
How COVID-19 Alert Levels affect early learning services
Alert Levels under COVID-19 and how they impact early learning services, including when services must close and when children can attend.
New Food Rules and What They Mean for Your Centre
New Ministry of Health Guidelines relating to food safety and what early learning services need to do to comply with the new rules.
Reducing the risk of food-related choking in early learning services
Steps early education services must take to keep young children safe from food related choking.
2019 Complaints and Incidents Report
A summary of the Ministry of Education’s 2019 Complaints and Incidents report, which describes the complaints and the actions taken in response.
The move towards a fully qualified home-based ECE workforce
As part of it's Early Learning Action Plan, the government is moving towards a fully qualified workforce in home based early education. This article explains the timelines for introduction.
What you need to know about child care ratios
Changes to adult to child ratios in child care centres are on the way as a result of the Early Learning Action Plan. Learn how these will impact children and what the early childhood sector thinks about the new rules.
What the Education and Training Act 2020 means for early learning
Learn about the new Education and Training Act 2020, the most significant reform of education legislation in decades, and what it means for children who attend early learning services.
How qualified is our early learning workforce?
The Early Learning Action Plan outlines a series of initiatives to boost qualifications among our early education workforce. Learn what changes are planned.
What the Early Learning Action Plan means for children, parents, whānau and ECE services
After extensive consultation with the early childhood sector, families and whanau the government’s Early Learning Action Plan has been released.
The Active Play Guidelines for young children
It's important for babies, toddlers and preschoolers to be busy, but the big question is - how active and how rested should under-fives be?