Early childhood service owners are wary of plans for a flying squad to investigate potential fraud and safety failures but others in the sector say it is urgently needed.
The Provider Assessment Group makes surprise spot checks on home-based early learning services (File image).
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The Education Ministry is reinstating the Provider Assessment Group, which ceased operations nearly six months ago after a three-year pilot.
During that time, the group made surprise spot checks on home-based early learning services, and shut down about 17 sites.
Early childhood teacher and campaigner Susan Bates said hundreds of teachers had told her about badly-run early learning centres, which proved there was a real need for the unit.