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Vetting delays: childcare threat to sue
Childcare centres are threatening to sue the police regarding delays in vetting new staff members.
Childcare centres are threatening to sue the police regarding delays in vetting new staff members.
About 70 children will have to move out of their Ellerslie preschool at the end of this term to make way for a planned retirement village.
Being a nanny gives school leavers hands-on experience to set them up for a career in childcare.
Ballooning numbers of preschool kids being taught at home by under-qualified grandparents and nannies - at the taxpayers' expense.
Gloriavale could lose millions of dollars in taxpayer funding over its opposition to identification numbers for preschoolers.
A childcare centre break-out in which two preschoolers unlatched a gate and wandered across a busy road has prompted management to boost security.
Two children unlatched a gate at an early childhood centre in Palmerston North and wandered across a four-lane road.
An early childhood educator says many people are losing confidence in how to be parents because they see their role as going back to paid work.
If teachers were unpaid, they would be reluctant to do the job and, in the end, children would be worse off, writes Jamie Whyte. Yet the same goes for those who supply the capital.
Parents are going to extreme lengths to give their children a head start before they hit the school system.
A toddler whose heart stopped after he choked on a sandwich at the home of an Auckland childcare worker should be celebrating his second birthday today.
Of the kids who start at Takanini School each year, only 20 per cent have had early childhood education experience.
Children in early-childhood education, ages 3 to 5, are to be given ID numbers.
Preschool education service provides in-home help for 1000 children.
Marketing to children now starts in infancy, but a conference in Auckland tomorrow will ask what we can do about it, reports Simon Collins.
Parents should have the option to drop their 4-year-old off at school, says a principal who is set to open a preschool on his school's grounds.
Early childhood teachers are being asked to take pay cuts, slash hours and even quit while parents face higher fees.
New Zealand's biggest home childcare provider is rewording its contracts to impose new conditions in relation to the publicly-funded 20 hours' "free" childcare."
Preschool educators are calling for an urgent review of government funding after the Herald on Sunday revealed a large number of parents are paying extra for what was supposed to be a free service.
Almost half of New Zealand preschools are charging parents for what is supposed to be a free government-funded service, according to a Herald on Sunday investigation.
A Herald on Sunday investigation has found nearly half of all early childhood providers surveyed supplement their 20 hours Early Childhood Education with extra "optional charges".
Two views on the Government's decision to require social welfare beneficiaries with little children to arrange for them to attend preschool education centres from July next year.
Editorial: Early education has not been a priority for this Government. But having made it compulsory for beneficiaries National will find it hard to argue against wider compulsion.
Early childhood experts are in shock after a government decision to make education compulsory from the age of 3 for children of welfare beneficiaries.
Preschool pupils are teaching their teachers a thing or two with their grasp of new technology.