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Survey - 70% of early childhood centres with empty places
Thursday, 28 March 2013, 1:16 pm | Early Childhood Council
A survey of business confidence, released this week reveals more than 70% of early childhood centres with empty places, and increasing competition between providers. The survey finds almost 60% of centres expecting things to be tougher still in 12 ... More >>
Early Childhood Council on Fees
Thursday, 7 March 2013, 11:24 am | Early Childhood Council
Many hundreds of early childhood centres would be unable to maintain current levels of quality without the payment of parental fees. More >>
Children safer in early childhood centres than many homes
Tuesday, 26 February 2013, 5:31 pm | Early Childhood Council
The Early Childhood Council said today (26 February 2013) that the Home Education Foundation (HEF) was ‘talking nonsense’ when it argued that early childhood centres were unsafe for children. More >>
White Paper will save many, but comes with ‘fish hooks’
Thursday, 11 October 2012, 12:11 pm | Early Childhood Council
The White Paper for Vulnerable Children is likely to see many saved from neglect and abuse, but comes with ‘fish hooks’, says the largest representative body of licensed early childhood centres in New Zealand. More >>
Early Childhood Council welcomes requirement for parents
Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 2:29 pm | Early Childhood Council
Early Childhood Council welcomes requirement for parents on benefits to ensure their children attend early childhood education 15 hours a week from the age of three More >>
Early Childhood Council supports recommendations on poverty
Tuesday, 28 August 2012, 4:56 pm | Early Childhood Council
The largest representative body of licensed early childhood centres in New Zealand supports the early childhood recommendations released today (28 August, 2012) by the Children’s Commissioner’s Expert Advisory Group on Solutions to Child Poverty. More >>
Record numbers for Early Childhood Council Annual Conference
Thursday, 24 May 2012, 5:49 pm | Early Childhood Council
The organiser of a conference for early childhood centre managers and teachers to be run in Auckland this weekend, has struggled to accommodate the numbers seeking to attend. More >>
Record numbers for Early Childhood Council's Conference
Thursday, 24 May 2012, 5:46 pm | Early Childhood Council
The organiser of a conference for early childhood centre managers and teachers to be run in Auckland this weekend, has struggled to accommodate the numbers seeking to attend. More >>
Early Childhood Council reacts to Budget
Thursday, 24 May 2012, 4:53 pm | Early Childhood Council
The Early Childhood Council has welcomed the money in the Budget that is being directed to increasing participation in early childhood education by vulnerable groups. More >>
New Access to Early Childhood Education
Tuesday, 8 May 2012, 1:29 pm | Early Childhood Council
The Early Childhood Council has hailed the Government’s pre-Budget announcement it would be spending an additional $80 million over four years to secure access to early childhood education for the children of beneficiaries. More >>
Early Childhood Centre investment confidence low
Monday, 26 March 2012, 12:15 pm | Early Childhood Council
Fear of further Government revenue cuts is undermining the confidence of those running early childhood centres, according to a new survey. The survey of both community and privately run centres is the first in what is to be a six-monthly survey of early ... More >>
Family First Study Misleading
Wednesday, 8 February 2012, 11:18 am | Early Childhood Council
A Family First study, released today and arguing that ‘daycare’ is harmful to children, is ‘misleading and irresponsibly alarmist’, says the Early Childhood Council. More >>
Treasury report threatens increase in early childhood fees
Friday, 3 February 2012, 3:29 pm | Early Childhood Council
Treasury recommendations, contained in the briefing to the incoming Finance Minister, threaten increases in childcare fees and drops in the quality of education and care, says the largest representative body of licensed early childhood centres in New Zealand. More >>
New demand for male early childhood teachers cannot be met
Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 2:54 pm | Early Childhood Council
While an increasing number of New Zealand families would like men to be teaching their under fives, the men are not there to be employed, says an early childhood organisation that represents 1100 centres nationwide. More >>
ECC statement on the report from PM's Chief Science Advisor
Wednesday, 1 June 2011, 5:13 pm | Early Childhood Council
The Early Childhood Council has called the report from the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, released today (01 June), ‘a compelling argument for the effectiveness of investment in early childhood education and the services that can be built around ... More >>
Budget 2011 a relief for ECE centres
Thursday, 19 May 2011, 4:41 pm | Early Childhood Council
Following the early childhood education revenue cuts of Budget 2010, the largest representative body of licensed early childhood centres in New Zealand has greeted Budget 2011 with “a sense of relief”. More >>
100,000 to 200,000 families may be face more ECE fees
Thursday, 3 March 2011, 12:54 pm | Early Childhood Council
New early childhood education programmes for those on welfare, outlined in the recently-released report of the Welfare Working Group, could cost between 100,000 and 200,000 families hundreds of dollars a year in additional fees for early childhood education. More >>
Government should not use quake to reduce ECE
Thursday, 3 March 2011, 12:44 pm | Early Childhood Council
Voices in the early childhood education sector are expressing concern the Government may use the Canterbury earthquake ‘as a cover behind which it makes additional revenue cuts for early childhood centres’. More >>
Unfair criticism of early childhood education by PM
Thursday, 10 February 2011, 3:54 pm | Early Childhood Council
Early Childhood Council CEO Peter Reynolds has today (10 February) expressed concern that the Prime Minister’s Statement to Parliament this week ‘repeated unfair Government criticism of the early childhood education sector’. More >>
Budget cuts to early childhood education kick in next week
Thursday, 27 January 2011, 4:04 pm | Early Childhood Council
Early childhood education revenue cuts, announced in last year’s Government Budget, are effective from next week (1 February). The cuts have significantly reduced funding for early childhood education centres with 80% or more qualified staff. The cuts, ... More >>
