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Child Protection

Tools to help you develop a child protection policy and safety-check the people working with your centre's children

Pay Parity

Information on ECC's voice to government and the sector on Pay Parity issues, and how you can be involved.

Wages and Salaries Survey

Insights and data for centre employers and employees on fair and reasonable wages

Business Planning

Tips and resources to help you tailor your centre's business plan and comply with regulation

Financial Management

Tools and reports to help you manage cash flow, budget, profit and loss statement, and your balance sheet

Food Safety in ECE

Essential information and documents to help your centre maintain food safety standards.

Events

The Early Childhood Council offers professional development for ECE centre owners, managers and teachers. We run both online and in-person events for the sector.

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Workshops for centre management

Online workshops for centre owners, managers and governance boards

Workshops for teachers

Online workshops for teaching staff hosted on ECE Learning Unlimited

Webinars

Informational webinars on the latest issues and topics affecting the sector

ECE Learning Unlimited

Access all of our online professional professional development in the ECC Learning Centre

Rubiix Lunch n Learn Webinars

Bite-sized informational webinars on topical issues

New Zealand Childcare Finance Policyhub

Get informed and involved on upcoming policy updates, changes and submissions.

Preferred Suppliers

Preferred Supplier Programme

Discounted goods and services and other benefits from a range of preferred suppliers, including companies that provide members with free legal or financial advice.

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About the Preferred Supplier Programme

The ECC Preferred Supplier Programme provides ECC members access to a range of goods and services from ECC-contracted Preferred Suppliers at favourable rates and may include additional benefits to the ECC.

Early Childhood Council App

The ECC App gives members access to discounts and special pricing, displays upcoming events, and for employers it gives you a quicker way to contact our exclusive helplines, all in one place.

Exclusive Helplines

Access our member helplines for employment law and financial advice.

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News & Media

News and Media

Keep up with the latest news and media releases published by the Early Childhood Council.

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Teaching 'Sleep' is Teaching Too

Sleeping may sound like a simple task, a physical need since the moment we were born. Yet falling and staying asleep are not inherent skills; they are taught and learned over time. Teachers play an important and nurturing role when supporting sleep in education and care settings, by prioritising children’s wellbeing and sense of belonging.

Kiddywinkles Helping Kids in Need

For over five years, Kiddywinkles with support from parents and whānau, has supported The Salvation Army by donating toys for children who may otherwise go without. At Kiddywinkles, people are at the heart of everything we do, and our Toy Drive initiative provides an opportunity for us to give back to our community and contribute to making positive difference in the lives of children.

Oral language development recommendations can’t be delivered for free

The Early Childhood Council is concerned the Education Review Office’s early oral language development report and recommendations increases unfunded workload on ECE teachers.

Ombudsman, Ministry of Education not bothered about getting their sums wrong

The government is not delivering the basics brilliantly through a Ministry of Education Pay Parity calculator that’s setting Early Childhood Education centres up to fail, and the Ombudsman is comfortable with them doing it.

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Child Protection

Health and Wellbeing

ECC appreciate the importance of health and wellbeing in the ECE sector. Quality education and care requires significant mental and physical output, and sometimes this can negatively impact on the health and wellbeing of staff. Further to this, we work with diverse tamariki and whānau that may need extra support from time to time.

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Inan effort to help ECE services in the provision of support to staff, tamarikiand whānau, ECC have compiled the following list of useful health and wellbeingresources:

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Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand

HealthEd helplines and local mental health services

Gold Star educator programme

Healthify He Puna Waiora

For tamariki and whānau

Manaaki Tangata Victim Support

Child Matters services and resources

Brainwave charitable trust

If you have suggestions to add to our list, or notice a link that is broken, please contact admin@ecc.org.nz.