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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 >>
Childcare Centre Financial Survival Workshops
Wednesday, 6 October 2010, 10:59 am | Early Childhood Council
Every early childhood centre in the country is affected by the 2010 Budget. What’s the true impact on your centre? How can you survive these changes? What other options do you have? More >>
Early childhood centres support funding boost
Friday, 20 August 2010, 9:16 am | Early Childhood Council
The Early Childhood Council (ECC) has praised today’s Government announcement that Waitakere and Northland will be the first two areas to benefit from a nationwide programme to boost the participation of low-income children in early childhood education. More >>
Early childhood centres hit by funding cuts
Friday, 25 June 2010, 9:25 am | Early Childhood Council
Nationwide survey predicts both fee hikes and a decline in service quality at early childhood centres More >>
Support For Budget From Early Childhood Sector
Friday, 21 May 2010, 12:27 pm | Early Childhood Council
The largest representative body of licensed early childhood centres in New Zealand says announcements in the Budget have left the early childhood sector with ‘mixed emotions, many of which are positive’. More >>
Delaying early childhood teacher registration
Friday, 30 October 2009, 10:04 am | Early Childhood Council
Moving the 80 per cent target for early childhood teacher registration out two years to 2012 is welcomed but will not solve the sector's current and damaging staff shortages, says the Early Childhood Council. Chief executive Sarah Farquhar says the number ... More >>
Child Education Centres Support Improvements
Thursday, 2 July 2009, 1:26 pm | Early Childhood Council
The largest representative body of licensed early childhood centres in New Zealand (with more than 1000 community and commercially owned centre members) has hailed Government reductions in early childhood bureaucracy as ‘prudent and sensible’. More >>
Council Mourns Loss of Brian Donnelly
Monday, 29 September 2008, 10:48 am | Early Childhood Council
The Early Childhood Council (ECC) notes with sadness the death last week of former New Zealand First MP Brian Donnelly. More >>
Early Childhood Council warns of teacher shortages
Sunday, 4 May 2008, 5:40 pm | Early Childhood Council
Early Childhood Council CEO Sue Thorne has today warned that workforce pressures – particularly teacher shortages – are the biggest challenge facing the early childhood sector. More >>
Early childhood conference will have a real impact
Thursday, 1 May 2008, 9:53 am | Early Childhood Council
New Zealands largest annual conference for early childhood professionals starts in Wellington tomorrow with 685 delegates booked to attend a packed three day programme. More >>
Early Childhood Conference Sold Out
Tuesday, 25 March 2008, 10:27 am | Early Childhood Council
Early Childhood Conference Sold Out Six weeks before the event, New Zealand’s largest annual conference for early childhood professionals has already sold out, with 650 delegates booked to attend the three-day conference in Wellington and many more disappointed ... More >>
