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Early Childhood Education and Care News
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June 9, 2020
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Kia ora, this week a reminder about the ECE census coming up on Monday 22 June. Also, are your kitchen hygiene standards up to scratch in the strict new world of COVID-19 cleanliness?
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2020 ECE Census
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Every year the Ministry of Education runs the Early Childhood Education (ECE) Census to learn more about the state of play in the ECE sector.
Data is captured for a one-week period, usually the last week of June, and includes information about types of services, enrolment/attendance numbers, teaching staff and the use of Te Reo and community languages.
The government uses the information collected to monitor early learning services, determine funding and expenditure and to develop policy.
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Kitchen Hygiene in the Spotlight
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COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of maintaining good personal hygiene standards as a way of preventing the spread of the virus through hand-to-hand contact.
To this end, early childhood services have been busy reinforcing the importance and effectiveness of hand washing as a prevention tool and explaining to children why they shouldn't touch their faces.
An equally important facet of infection control in early childhood settings is kitchen cleanliness. According to the World Health Organisation the COVID-19 virus can survive for up to 72 hours on plastic and stainless steel, around 4 hours on copper and around 24 hours on cardboard, which makes kitchens a fertile environment for the virus to spread.
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