Now We Are Four study shows mothers rent and move often.

A mobile dentistry clinic is being launched for needy families in West Auckland

Lynn Euphemia Abraham is defending 11 charges against nine different children.

A man who was born totally deaf will graduate with a Masters at Auckland University today.

Clip of kids playing in rain before Cyclone Cook hits viewed more than 26 million times.

Teachers have been told to encourage children to speak their first languages in their first few years of education, rather than sticking solely to English.

Water Stories #3 Telling the children of Village Kids Havelock North Preschool that there were bugs in their tap-water was the only way to explain Havelock North's water contamination crisis last August. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The manager of the Auckland daycare centre where a 4-year-old died recently says teachers were supervising the playground when the "tragic accident" happened.

An early childhood education network has said special attention needs to be paid to the children involved in a tree toppling on a kids' play area in Auckland.

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.

A complaint against a daycare centre is being investigated after a 2-year-old managed to wrap five rubber bands around her neck.

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."

An early childhood teacher who forged her qualifications is in prison awaiting sentence and has had her name removed from the New Zealand Teachers Council Register.

Early education centres report eighty-five injuries each year - including amputation, impalings and brain injuries.

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.