Press Release – Early Childhood Council The Early Childhood Council says the educationally powerful connections vision set out in the Ministry of Educations Briefing for Incoming Education Minister will be handicapped by the broken early learning funding model. The Ministry sees …
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.
The Ministry sees trust in relationships as key to change and progress in this term – but the ECC warns that if community and privately owned ECE centres remain on an uneven playing field compared to kindergartens and hamstrung by regulation, that trust will evaporate.
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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.
The Ministry sees trust in relationships as key
to change and progress in this term - but the ECC warns that
if community and privately owned ECE centres remain on an
uneven playing field compared to kindergartens and hamstrung
by regulation, that trust will evaporate.
“We
broadly agree with the direction set out, but relationships
are best when built on mutual trust and transparency. The