Thursday, 20 May 2021, 4:50 pm
Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood New Zealand acknowledges
the 1.2% CPI general increase in today’s Budget, which
will assist Early Childhood Education (ECE) services with
their day-to-day funding, but unfortunately this is just not
enough to help struggling services, especially those trying
to recover from 2020 Covid environment. Where is the
acknowledgement of the ‘above and beyond’ that services
provided during 2020?
The increase in funding aims to
help all funded ECE services and kōhanga reo manage
increasing costs of provision and maintain quality and
affordability for families and whanau, but yet, it is still
8% behind CPI due to a long tail of under or no funding over
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Press Release – Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood NZ Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood New Zealand welcomes todays pre-Budget announcement which will see some ECE teachers | kaiako take a step closer to pay parity with their kindergarten colleagues. Todays announcement from Education Minister Chris Hipkins …
Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood New Zealand welcomes today’s pre-Budget announcement which will see some ECE teachers | kaiako take a step closer to pay parity with their kindergarten colleagues.
Today’s announcement from Education Minister Chris Hipkins will see existing education and care service funding rates increased from 1 July 2021, alongside the minimum salary required to be paid to qualified and certificated kaiako. The minimum moves from $49,862 to $51,358 per annum.
Tuesday, 4 May 2021, 12:31 pm
Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood New Zealand is calling on
the Government to find scope in this year’s Budget to
inject well deserved and long overdue funding into the ECE
sector.
Te Rito Maioha Chief Executive Kathy Wolfe
says, “hearing Finance Minister Grant Robertson outlining
the Government’s priorities in the upcoming ‘recovery’
Budget, it’s heartening to know that as well as priorities
for the economy there will be a continued key focus on child
wellbeing.”
“Quality early childhood education is
a critical aspect of child wellbeing. About 97% of children
are in some form of early childhood education in this
Press Release – Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood NZ Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood New Zealand is calling on the Government to find scope in this years Budget to inject well deserved and long overdue funding into the ECE sector. Te Rito Maioha Chief Executive Kathy Wolfe says, hearing Finance …
Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood New Zealand is calling on the Government to find scope in this year’s Budget to inject well deserved and long overdue funding into the ECE sector.
Te Rito Maioha Chief Executive Kathy Wolfe says, “hearing Finance Minister Grant Robertson outlining the Government’s priorities in the upcoming ‘recovery’ Budget, it’s heartening to know that as well as priorities for the economy there will be a continued key focus on child wellbeing.”