The Ministry of Education’s own data shows the pay gap between teachers in kindergartens and early learning centres hasn’t gone anywhere.

The Early Childhood Council is calling for the implementation of new early learning centre food safety rules to be paused so that issues that have emerged through its roll out can be worked through.

The Early Childhood Council welcome the new guidelines for child food safety, provided room remains for ECE centre discretion.

Support for Pay Equity claims in the Early Childhood Education sector is limited, according to Early Childhood Council surveys.

The Early Childhood Council says the ‘educationally powerful connections’ vision set out in the Ministry of Education’s Briefing for Incoming Education Minister will be handicapped by the broken early learning funding model.