Child Care News
Kindergarten group Whānau Manaaki falls victim to Kaseya ransomware attack
Stuff - Tom Pullar-Strecker - July 5, 2021Kindergarten group Whānau Manaaki, which operates 101 kindergartens in the central and lower North Island, has fallen victim to the global Kaseya ransomware attack. Chief executive Amanda Coulston said computers at its Porirua headquarters had been infected with ransomware.
World-class Wellington: Storypark's exciting new chapter
Stuff - Rob Mitchell - July 5, 2021As a personal mission statement, it takes some beating. “I’m not too interested in how much money I earn before I die; I’m more interested in how can I help create as many moments that are less shit for as many people as possible.” His mother would probably bristle at that ...
Crowds come out in cold to celebrate Matariki
Otago Daily Times - Tracey Roxburgh - July 5, 2021Hundreds of families braved bitter temperatures in Arrowtown yesterday afternoon to celebrate Matariki and raise money for the Arrowtown Preschool’s extension. As soon as the sun disappeared from Buckingham Green, the mercury dropped several degrees, but mulled wine ...
Covid 19 coronavirus: Border to open to overseas qualified teachers, Hipkins says
NZ Herald - July 3, 2021The door is being opened to 300 overseas qualified teachers to come to New Zealand under a new class border exception, Education Minister Chris Hipkins says. Teachers already employed in New Zealand, but who left the country and were unable to return to their job after ...
Childcare centres at risk of staff shortage due to 'unreliable' police vetting
NZ Herald - Rachel Maher and Jayden Holmes - July 1, 2021Childcare centres say they are at risk of being understaffed and unable to properly look after kids because of the police's "notoriously slow" vetting for workers. Some Auckland providers are waiting for up to six weeks for checks and Children's Commissioner Andrew Becroft...
Lunch break in their cars: Early childhood educators 'broken in mind, body and heart'
Stuff - Susan Bates - June 29, 2021OPINION: NZEI Te Riu Roa (the New Zealand Educational Institute) reports more than 500 vacancies for early childhood education (ECE) teachers despite the Government's recent and welcome decision to lift their income. But the trouble in ECE-land is not just money going into ...
Mana In Mahi Is Working As A Career Path For Jobseekers Into ECE
Scoop - Early Childhood New Zealand - June 29, 2021A new programme has been launched to help unemployed people become early childhood teachers, and it’s working. The Mana in Mahi | Strength in Work ECE programme is a partnership between Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood New Zealand (ECNZ) and the Ministry of ...
Half a century celebrated
Otago Daily Times - Karen Pasco - June 29, 2021Little fingers just wanted to scoop up the icing on top of the cake at Grasmere Kindergarten’s 50th anniversary celebration in Invercargill yesterday. They managed to hold off, with some encouragement from the teachers, while candles were lit, Happy Birthday was sung and a photo ...
South Canterbury schools and early childhood centres struck by gastro bugs
Stuff - Esther Ashby-Coventry - June 28, 2021Gastro bugs have swept through South Canterbury schools and early education centres with up to 50 per cent of children from some kindergartens away because of illness. Last week, the Canterbury District Health Board informed all Canterbury schools that there were high levels ...
Covid 19 coronavirus: Lockdown contributed to health harm for children - University of Otago study reveals
NZ Herald - Kurt Bayer- June 24, 2021Avoiding hospitals and reduced access to healthcare contributed to moderate and severe harm for Kiwi children during last year's Covid-19 lockdown, a new study has revealed. During New Zealand's six-week national level-4 coronavirus lockdown period, there were about 55 instances....
Passive Investment In Papakura Underscored By High Demand For Childcare Services
Scoop - Press Release Bayleys - June 22, 2021Societal changes, population growth and government subsidies are some of the compelling factors underpinning the private early childhood education and childcare sector in New Zealand and in turn, this is fuelling investment interest in properties tenanted by providers of these services.
Young people in south Auckland get a funding boost for STEM projects
Our Auckland - June 21, 2021More than 400 young people in south Auckland will benefit from SouthSci funding to find science-based solutions to community problems. Funding of over $170,000 has been approved for 11 projects to be carried out in collaboration with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths) ...
'We’re surviving, I wouldn’t say we’re thriving': What parenting looks like in Aotearoa today
Stuff - Michelle Duff - June 20, 2021Work, daycare drop off, work, after-school activities, housework, dinner, work. Rinse and repeat. Modern parenting is a whirlwind, laid bare by the Covid era. So is anybody happy? Michelle Duff reports. There’s a new study out. It says too much screen time could damage your child ...
Ministry says no evidence children ill-treated at early childhood centres
Stuff - Katy Jones - June 19, 2021A parent has described an incorrect statement that children were ill-treated at an early childhood service her children attended, as the unfortunate end of a "tough run” for a Nelson couple. Tim Powell and his wife were devastated when they read ...
All Tamariki Deserve The Best ECE And Childcare
Scoop - Press Release: Office of the Children's Commissioner - June 18, 2021Children with the most to gain from quality early childhood education (ECE) risk missing out as a report finds Aotearoa has some of the most expensive childcare in the world, Children’s Commissioner Andrew Becroft says. UNICEF today released is new report Where do Rich Countries Stand ...
