Child Care News
Home-based care is the alternative to "Dangerous Daycares"
Scoop NZ - March 18, 2018In a response to Radio New Zealand's (RNZ) article released today "Dangerous Daycares" PORSE says home-based care is the answer for parents looking for quality, low-ratio childcare. Early childcare teachers have spoken out in RNZ's article claiming that some centres...
Insight: Dangerous Daycares
Radio New Zealand - John Gerritsen - March 18, 2018Many early childhood centres are struggling to make ends meet and teachers say some are deliberately cutting corners that leave children in the care of too few adults. Overall government funding has increased as enrolments rise, but the amount paid per-child has been frozen at times...
Govt touts stronger Singapore education links
Radio NZ - March 17, 2018A new arrangement with Singapore's education ministry could inform changes to New Zealand's early childhood education, which is facing staffing problems, Education Minister Chris Hipkins says. Mr Hipkins said ties with Singapore's education ministry had been strengthened by the Education...
Three pre-schoolers escape a Rotorua childcare centre on trikes
NZ Herald - Kelly Makiha - March 7, 2018Three 4-year-old girls escaped a Rotorua childcare centre on trikes and were found two blocks away, having crossed a busy road. An investigation has begun and the Ministry of Education is involved after the incident about 9am yesterday at ABC Sunset Rotorua on Sunset Rd. One of the children...
Corrections to review processes and move sex offenders from Whangarei
NZ Herald - Kristin Edge - March 7, 2018The Department of Corrections is reviewing how it carried out community consultation over placing four child sex offenders in a central Whangarei house which was close to childcare centres, schools and a popular park. Corrections yesterday confirmed the four men released from prison on strict...
Whangarei childcare centres surprised to hear of sex offenders living in nearby Corrections facility
NZ Herald - Kristin Edge - March 3, 2018Owners of two Whangarei childcare centres say they were not consulted about a facility housing convicted child sex offenders which has opened just a few hundred metres from both. The Dent St facility, housing at least four men convicted of child sex offences, is within a few hundred...
NZTC to provide pre-school teacher education in Malaysia
Scoop NZ - Press Release - March 1, 2018New Zealand's largest provider of early childhood teacher education has established a partnership to benefit children and families in Malaysia. New Zealand Tertiary College (NZTC) has become the first tertiary education provider in New Zealand to have a degree accredited...
NZTC to provide pre-school teacher education in Malaysia
Scoop NZ - Press Release - March 1, 2018New Zealand's largest provider of early childhood teacher education has established a partnership to benefit children and families in Malaysia. New Zealand Tertiary College (NZTC) has become the first tertiary education provider in New Zealand to have a degree accredited by the Malaysian Qualifications Agency and the Malaysia Ministry of Higher Education. The college's three year Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Education)...
Use of childcare by Māori and Pacific children takes off
Scoop NZ - Press Release - March 1, 2018Over the past eight years there has been a large increase in the number of Māori and Pacific preschool children using formal childcare, Stats NZ said today. "In 2017, about two in three Māori preschool children attended some form of early childhood education – about the same level as European...
ECC welcomes inclusive approach to education sector changes
Scoop NZ - Press Release - February 21, 2018The Early Childhood Council (ECC) looks forward to participating in meaningful and inclusive discussions, meetings, and consultations on proposed changes to the education sector that affect early childhood education. The Minister of Education today announced...
Cyclone Gita: The full list of school, kindy closures
NZ Herald - February 20, 2018More than 50 South Island schools and early learning centres are closed today because severe weather warnings have been issued for the region. Schools and early learning centres in Nelson, Marlborough, Tasman, Buller, Grey, Kaikoura and Westland districts have been closed...
UPDATE: Evolve shares fall 20% after profit warning
Scoop NZ - February 19, 2018Evolve Education shares fell 20 percent to 60 cents after the early childhood education group gave its second full-year profit warning and said it is likely to write down goodwill on acquisitions and cut its dividend. Net profit before one-time items is expected to be $11 million to $12 million...
Long term investment property is child's play
NZ Herald - February 17, 2018Chaudhary says the childcare sector in Auckland is experiencing record growth, and properties occupied by childcare businesses are proving popular with investors. "Public funding for the sector is reliable and secure, rising from $860 million in 2008 to almost $1 billion now. The amount...
Survey shows being a working parent is no child's play
NZ Herald - February 16, 2018Childcare hassles also had work-related consequences for 68 per cent of parents, some of whom had to turn down paid work, stop searching for work, or were prevented from making career changes. Some had to resign. However, the biggest consequence of not having childcare was having to change...
Childcare a challenge for 1 in 6 working parents
Scoop NZ - Press Release: Statistics New Zealand - February 16, 2018Not having care available when they needed it was the main childcare difficulty (38 percent) for parents who worked, or wanted to work, Stats NZ said today. Care being too expensive was their next main difficulty (19 percent). Many working parents use childcare arrangements to make their...
