Feedback on Home-based ECE document: Having your say 2007

Summary of feedback on home-based ECE services regulatory proposals
Updated 13 June 2007 Ministry of Education

Background

In early 2007, the Ministry of Education undertook a discussion process with the home-based early childhood education (ECE) sector on regulatory proposals that were specific to home-based ECE, and on which further input was required, as part of the ECE regulatory review. A discussion document, Having Your Say - Regulating home-based early childhood education was distributed to home-based ECE service providers and other interested parties in January 2007. It invited the sector to provide feedback on a number of proposals through a series of discussion meetings, a freepost feedback form or other means.

Home-based ECE services make up approximately five per cent of the total ECE sector. As at July 2006 there were 201 home-based ECE networks, with approximately 10,000 children enrolled. There are approximately 40 providers of home-based ECE, with the seven largest service providers accounting for seventy per cent of the sector.

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