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Child carer sacked over swearing claim

Pre-schoolers earning gun licences at NZ kindies

Kids with imaginary guns are learning real safety lessons at kindergartens and early childcare centres around the country.

Editorial: Parental leave proposal offers better balance

The previous Government was much taken with the economic benefit of getting and keeping more women in work.

SFO drops Kidicorp early childhood centre inquiry

Costs make return to work hardly worthwhile

New mum Vanessa Mealings would welcome any change that made it easier for her to stay at home in the first year of her children's lives.

Childcare changes would cost parents - Govt

Parents would end up footing the bill for many of the recommended changes in a Children's Commissioner report on pre-primary care, the Government says.

Care for under two-year-olds variable - report

A new report from the Children's Commissioner is a timely call to take the care and education of NZ's under two-year-olds seriously, NZCA says.

Mum sues posh preschool

Toddler's mother wants checks tightened at centre

Parents face $80 a week fees shock

The parents of tens of thousands of preschoolers can expect to start paying more for early childhood care next year.

Distraught toddler alone for two hours at childcare centre

A distraught toddler was mistakenly left alone in a childcare centre for nearly two hours while her teachers and friends went for a daytrip to the park.

Couple hit by childcare costs

Childcare centres to hike fees

Kindergarten parents targeted by debt collectors

Graduating to big kids' daycare

It's the first few months of daycare that are the worst, writes Scott Kara.

Boy hurt in kindy crash released from hospital

A five-year-old boy hit by a car outside a South Auckland pre-school has been discharged from hospital.