Who we are... what we do...

 

ECE Reform is a non-profit collective of teachers, parents, early education and care service owners, and many other child advocates, who all want the best for New Zealand's children. We know there are serious problems with New Zealand's early care and education system. We are dedicated to finding solutions to these problems, and taking them to government. 

 

Would you like to see better ratios, smaller group sizes, and an end to overcrowding?

Would you like government systems that put care for children first, and look after the teaching workforce?

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ECE Reform is working on these proposals and much more. 

 

Why early care and education needs reform

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Just think of the great images of childhood... running, rolling on grass, or lying on it, looking at the sky... getting into the natural world of flowers and leaves and scents and textures... being read to by a real person, cuddled up with your friends... or just falling asleep on a lap. The comforting smell of food cooking, and the fun of being allowed to help. Learning to tell someone what you want, how you feel, and being heard, being understood. Some New Zealand children experience this in beautiful, good quality ECE and care, but many don't.

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Sadly, thousands of New Zealand children spend long days in noisy, crowded spaces, with no grass and not enough room to run outside, and too few teachers to give them attention. Teachers are leaving the ECE sector because conditions have become unbearable for themselves, and potentially damaging to children.

 

It doesn't have to stay this way. Our projects can turn the sector around for good...