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Minister agrees to look into Early Childhood Education concerns

Early Childhood Education (ECE) sector leaders met with Minister Luxton, in Minister Tinetti’s absence, to discuss their concerns following the budget announcement of 20 hours free ECE for 2-year-olds.

ECC withdraws Pay Parity legal action after significant early learning investment promise in Budget 2023

Budget 2023’s promise of significant additional ECE funding has the potential to help many centres avoid financial unviability and hardship, as long as the current 20-hours conditions are kept, prompting the Early Childhood Council to withdraw its urgent legal action.

No guarantee the secondary teacher salary increase will be matched for early learning teachers

Teachers in education and care centres must wait to see if the Government will match the 14.5% secondary school teacher salary increases for early learning.

Early learning teachers’ Pay Equity process in doubt

The Education Minister’s decision to defer giving teachers in-principle government support to funding their Pay Equity settlement means increased uncertainty and pressure for Early Childhood employers, who have no such luxury once a settlement occurs.

Early Childhood Council releases its vision for higher quality and more sustainable early learning

Politicians contesting the 2023 General Election need to understand the fundamental issues that need their attention if early learning services are to survive, let alone thrive, for the good of children and whānau, says the Early Childhood Council.

Government’s Pay Parity promise is broken

Early learning providers’ funding is going backwards, despite government promises of Pay Parity for teachers employed in Education & Care services.

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