Child Care News
Measuring Māori early childhood development requires Māori tools
The Spinoff - Simon Day - September 2, 2022New research by a Taranaki puna reo has identified a way to measure the impact of Māori immersion ECE on tamariki for the first time. In the 1970s, as the te reo Māori revitalisation movement fought for the survival of the language in the face of massive decline...
Government Is On Notice To Fund ECE Teacher Pay Parity In 2023
Scoop - August 17, 2022The Government’s half-kept promises on pay parity funding for early childhood teachers have created a dire situation for ECE services who are desperate to do right by their teachers. Briefing documents released by Treasury yesterday show the Government reduced pay parity...
Pay Parity For Early Childhood Teachers, Now
Scoop - August 16, 2022A recent decision by the Minister of Education to hold back pay parity for ECE teachers needs changing urgently, the Green Party says. Documents released by the Treasury show that it warned the government not to fully fund parity in the Budget in May to stay within a spending...
Recognising Three Outstanding Leaders In Early Childhood Education
Scoop - July 29, 2022Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood NZ is proud and delighted to recognise three inspirational members and leaders for their outstanding service to early childhood education. Dr Anne Meade, Helen Baxter and Eneleata Tapusoa have been awarded life membership of Te Rito Maioha...
15% fee hikes for some childcare centres, sector faces 'dire' cost increases
Stuff - Melanie Carroll - June 26, 2022A tidal wave of fee increases is coming for parents who send their children to early childhood centres, with hikes of more than 15% planned in some cases, warns the head of the Early Childhood Council. Simon Laube said he wanted families to be prepared for the inevitable...
Tamariki In ECE Services Come Off Second Best In Budget 2022
Scoop - May 20, 2022Early childhood teachers will be celebrating another step towards pay parity in this year’s Budget – but there’s still no parity for tamariki in early childhood education services, or their whānau. “After being forgotten in last year’s Budget, we’re very pleased that experienced ECE...
Little Comfort For Early Childhood Education In This Year’s Budget
Scoop - May 19, 2022Early childhood education services that are already financially stressed and struggling to retain teachers are unlikely to find much to smile about in this year’s Budget. A cost adjustment to funding rates may be welcome news for ECE business owners worried about diminishing...
Whānau Manaaki Kindergartens Welcomes Budget Focus On Families
Scoop - May 19, 2022One of the country’s largest early childhood services, Whānau Manaaki Kindergartens, welcomes the focus on families in today’s budget, but says that early childhood funding increases won’t keep pace with inflation. The government has announced a 2.75 per cent...
Early Learning Forgotten In Government Attendance Push
Scoop - May 11, 2022A pre-budget announcement of $88 million to address school attendance has completely ignored early learning. If the Government was serious about improving educational attendance they’d start at its foundation with more investment in early childhood education...
International Appointments And Research To Advance Early Childhood Education
Scoop Education - May 4, 2022New academic appointments and collaborative research have cemented an international relationship to advance early childhood education knowledge and practice. UNITAR International University of Malaysia has appointed two academic staff of Te Rito Maioha Early...
Early Childhood Education Sector In Crisis – Pre-Budget Survey Reveals
Scoop Education - May 2, 2022More people than ever in the early childhood education (ECE) sector think it is heading in the wrong direction and that there will be no improvement, at least not over the next 12 months. The quality of ECE for children in the sector has worsened. The sector is also...
'Child-farming': Office of Early Childhood Education survey's bleak results
NZ Herald - Melissa Nightingale - May 2, 2022Early childhood educators say the state of the sector is going downhill and have little faith in where the Government is taking them. "Child farming," a sector "heading backwards", and "ECE is a train wreck" are some of the comments that have come out of the annual...
Fear the Government's Fair Pay Agreements won’t work for early childhood teachers
Stuff - Gabrielle McCulloch - April 18, 2022Key figures in the education sector fear the Government's Fair Pay Agreements won’t be enough to achieve pay parity for early childhood teachers. The heads of the New Zealand Education Institute and the national early childhood education body have both said the...
Horowhenua childcare centre reducing its waste at kai time
Stuff - Adam Blackwell - April 1, 2022A Horowhenua early childhood education centre is working hard to keep kai time clean. Learning Links in Levin has a goal of reducing the amount of plastic packaging in lunch boxes, and minimising the amount of waste that makes it into the rubbish bin. Learning...
New Employment Law Will Boost Quality Of Early Childhood Education
Scoop - March 29, 2022NZEI Te Riu Roa welcomes the introduction of the Fair Pay Agreements Bill to Parliament, with Early Childhood Education set to be among the first sectors to be covered. “This is an opportunity for kaiako and kaimahi to lock in the fair pay and working conditions they deserve...
