Child Care News
Evolve Education launches equity raise; hires two brokers
Australian Financial Review - Sarah Thompson & Anthony Macdonald - May 8, 2019Evolve Education, one of the largest childcare companies in New Zealand, has taken advantage of improving conditions in the early education sector to ask investors to hand over fresh equity capital. The dual-listed operator Evolve was in front of fund managers on Wednesday with a pro-rata accelerated rights offer...
Cost of kids expands to meet your household budget
Stuff - Susan Edmunds - May 7, 2019In New Zealand, studies have suggested that a low-income family would spend $280 per week on two children or $480 on four. Higher-income earners would spend $700 a week on two kids or $1100 on four. A Plunket, BNZ and Massey University study in 2014 found that the average parent spent...
Physicians unveil comprehensive plan to address lagging child health and development in New Zealand
New Zealand Doctor - May 6, 2019The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) has today launched a new policy blueprint for early child development and is calling on the New Zealand government to prioritise child health and wellbeing in the upcoming Budget. Launched at the College’s congress in Auckland...
The New York measles outbreak is uncomfortably close to home
Stuff - Danielle McLaughlin - May 5, 2019District health boards in New Zealand reported to a Parliamentary health select committee in March that diseases once considered almost eradicated in New Zealand are again showing up in kids. Kiwi parents are declining to have their children immunised, and anti-vaxxers are to blame...
Early childhood teacher threatened to kill man at Auckland boarding house
Stuff - Laine Moger - May 3, 2019An early childhood teacher who threatened to kill a man by cutting his throat with a knife has been censured. George Basas, a registered early childhood teacher in Auckland, was applying for his certificate renewal when the Teaching Council learned he had two active police charges from an April 2017 incident...
Nelson City Council endorse childcare allowance proposal
Stuff - Tim Newman - May 3, 2019The Nelson City Council has endorsed a proposal to provide a childcare allowance to sitting council members. The proposal was put forward by the Remuneration Authority, following a series of submissions from councils and individuals over the past few years...
Unvaccinated daycare staff posing serious measles risk to babies, mum and experts say
Stuff - Laine Moger - May 2, 2019A mother is deeply concerned her 3-month-old baby is at risk of contracting measles from unvaccinated staff members at a daycare centre. Auckland is in the throes of a measles outbreak with 34 confirmed cases. Measles is highly infectious and potentially life-threatening...
Students assist in supporting Teen Parent Unit
Scoop Education - May 2, 2019UCOL Early Childhood Education diploma students have gained some valuable work experience while helping a local Childcare Centre in their time of need. The Wairarapa Teen Parent Unit (TPU) at Makoura College has been supporting teenagers and teen parents whose education ...
West Auckland childcare centre broken into eight times over past three months
Stuff - Danielle Clent - May 1, 2019Staff at an Auckland early childhood centre feel violated after the centre was broken into eight times. Henderson's Bright Eyes Early Childhood Centre had been targeted about once a week for the past three months. It started with pot plants and garden art going missing outside...
World Health Organisation advice on kids ' screen time gets tick from Bay of Plenty experts
NZ Herald - Leah Tebbutt - April 27, 2019Some local doctors and childcare providers are backing new guidelines released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that address one of the most pressing issues of 21st century family life. How much should parents resort to videos and online games to entertain, educate or simply distract their young children?
Daycare stress highest in Auckland: survey
Stuff NZ - Charlotte Carter - April 26, 2019Auckland parents are more likely to feel "extreme concern" about placing their kids in daycare than parents in any other city, according to a national parenting survey. The nib State of the Nation parenting survey quizzed 1200 parents throughout New Zealand...
A forest classroom where free-range children grow
Stuff - Amy Ridout - April 25, 2019On the edge of the Hira forest, just north of Nelson, a group of small children have finished their morning snack and are fanning out across the clearing into the trees. Some race to the swing hanging from a pine tree, while another drops to the ground to collect pine cones....
Inter-generational programme proves a hit with young and old
Stuff - Alice Geary - April 22, 2019Timaru preschoolers have been putting smiles on the faces of elderly residents in the town. Each month Karaka Learning Centre and ABC Marchwiel Childcare alternate in visiting Elloughton Gardens Rest Home to do activities with the residents...
Laughter returns to An-Nur Childcare Centre after Christchurch terror attack
Stuff - Oliver Lewis - April 17,2019Naema Nadeem Khan is surrounded by a circle of excited children. From the ceiling hangs a heart with the words "Aroha Nui", one of many messages of love and support given to the An-Nur Childcare Centre, in Hornby, Christchurch. Khan, a teacher at the childcare centre, returned...
'It just hasn't worked' - Minister Tracey Martin admits funding boost for early intervention fell short
NZ Herald - Isaac Davison - April 17, 2019Preschoolers with disabilities or development problems are waiting more than 100 days to get extra help - despite the Government's commitment to cut wait times for support a year ago. And the waiting list for early intervention has grown in the last year, against projections that it would...
