44 Chelburn Cresent, Mangere East, Auckland
View on mapERO’s Akanuku | Assurance Review reports provide information about whether a service meets and maintains regulatory standards. Further information about Akanuku | Assurance Reviews is included at the end of this report.
Regulatory standards |
ERO’s judgement |
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Curriculum |
Meeting |
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Premises and facilities |
Meeting |
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Health and safety |
Meeting |
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Governance, management and administration |
Meeting |
Since the onsite visit, the service has provided ERO with evidence that shows it has addressed non-compliances and is now taking reasonable steps to meet regulatory standards.
Poimaino 4 Homebased Childcare is one of six home-based education and care networks governed and operated by Poimaino Homebased Childcare Services Limited. The service is led by the owner with the support of a qualified coordinator. This network is quality-funded. All of the educators have an early childhood qualification. Most of the educators are family members of the children who attend. All of the children enrolled are of Tongan heritage.
The service curriculum provides a language-rich environment that supports children’s learning. It supports the right of each child to be confident in their own culture and encourages children to understand and respect other cultures.
Educators providing education and care engage in meaningful, positive interactions to enhance children’s learning and nurture reciprocal relationships. Children are provided with a range of experiences to enhance and extend their learning, both indoors and outdoors, individually and in groups.
Ongoing monitoring of practices and systems is required to ensure regulatory standards are maintained.
Next steps include the coordinator and educators:
providing increased opportunities for children to lead their own learning.
strengthening the inclusion of children’s perspectives in assessment, planning and evaluation records.
During the review, the service provided ERO with evidence that shows it has addressed the following
non-compliances:
Having a procedure for monitoring children’s sleep that includes that children are checked for warmth, breathing, and general well-being at least every 10 – 15 minutes (during day-time sleep) or more frequently according to individual needs (HS8).
Ensuring equipment, premises and facilities are checked on every day of operation for hazards to children that includes vandalism, dangerous objects, and foreign materials (HS11).
Ensuring that whenever children leave the premises on an excursion, a record of excursions undertaken includes the method of travel (HS14).
Ensuring that if children travel in a motor vehicle while in the care of the service, written permission of a parent of the child is obtained before travel begins (HS15).
The next ERO review is likely to be an Akarangi | Quality Evaluation.
Filivaifale Jason Swann
Director Review and Improvement Services (Northern)
Northern Region | Te Tai Raki
28 March 2023
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Early Childhood Service Name |
Poimaino 4 Homebased Childcare |
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Profile Number |
46991 |
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Location |
Mangere East, Auckland |
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Service type |
Home-based service |
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Number licensed for |
50 children, including up to 50 aged under 2 |
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Service roll |
15 |
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Review team on site |
January 2023 |
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Date of this report |
28 March 2023 |
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Most recent ERO report |
Education Review, May 2018 |
All services are licensed under the Education (Early Childhood Services) Regulations 2008. The legal requirements for early childhood services also include the Licensing Criteria for Education and Care Services 2008.
Services must meet the standards in the regulations and the requirements of the licensing criteria to gain and maintain a license to operate.
having its first ERO review – including if it is part of a governing organisation
previously identified as ‘not well placed’ or ‘requiring further development’
that has moved from a provisional to a full licence
that have been re-licenced due to a change of ownership
where an Akanuku | Assurance Review process is determined to be appropriate.
All early childhood services are required to promote children’s health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements. Before the review, the staff and management of a service completed an ERO Centre Assurance Statement and Self-Audit Checklist. In these documents they attested that they have taken all reasonable steps to meet their legal obligations related to:
curriculum
premises and facilities
health and safety practices
governance, management and administration.
As part of an Akanuku | Assurance Review ERO assesses whether the regulatory standards are being met. In particular, ERO looks at a service’s systems for managing the following areas that have a potentially high impact on children's wellbeing:
emotional safety (including positive guidance and child protection)
physical safety (including supervision; sleep procedures; accidents; medication; hygiene; excursion policies and procedures)
suitable staffing (including qualification levels; safety checking; teacher certification; ratios)
relevant evacuation procedures and practices.
As part of an Akanuku | Assurance Review ERO also gathers and records evidence through:
discussions with those involved in the service
consideration of relevant documentation, including the implementation of health and safety systems
observations of the environment/premises, curriculum implementation and teaching practice.
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Not well placed |
Requires further development |
Well placed |
Very well placed |
ERO's findings that support this overall judgement are summarised below.
Poimaino 1 Homebased Childcare is one of six home-based education and care networks in the Poimaino Homebased Childcare Services Limited organisation. The network provides for up to 60 children, from infancy to school age. Currently there are 13 educators whose homes are located in Mangere, East and Central Auckland. There are 46 children enrolled in this network and most children are Tongan. The licensee and staff communicate with and provide information for families in both English and Tongan. This network has one coordinator. Many educators are family members of the children who attend.
Poimaino 1, 2, 3 and 4 opened in 2016, and since then the other two networks have been added. The service is led by the owner/licensee. She works with the coordinators from all six networks, and is involved in all aspects of service operations. Each network operates under the Poimaino policies, procedures and philosophy.
The service's philosophy reflects the definition of Poimaino which means teaching and caring, similar to the role of a shepherd. The philosophy expresses the value of the home environment where children are nurtured to flourish and develop to their potential. It emphasises children's cultures, and sense of belonging and wellbeing.
Educators provide programmes in their homes for up to four children at a time. The coordinators are qualified early childhood teachers with current practising teacher certificates. They regularly visit each educator, and together they plan educational programmes for children.
This is the first ERO report of the service.
This review was part of a cluster of four network reviews in the Poimaino Homebased Childcare Services Limited organisation.
The service is underpinned by clear professional expectations of staff, and continuing development of frameworks for strategic development and evaluation. Good practices for monitoring children's wellbeing, health and safety are maintained, particularly for those children under two years of age, and for children with additional learning needs.
The licensee and coordinators work together as a professional and supportive team. Their philosophy of home-based education and care and the principles of Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum, are evident in their planning, practice, and service documentation.
Inclusive relationships and partnerships guide children's learning and service development. The licensee and coordinators work as a professional team focused on developing a quality programme for children, and a quality service for parents. Parents are encouraged to contribute to their children's learning programmes. Coordinators and educators regularly communicate with families in a variety of ways, including formal interviews with parents.
Appropriate planning and assessment practices guide programmes for children. Coordinators and educators work together to develop monthly plans that are topical or reflect children's common interests. Tongan children benefit from educators' knowledge and use of the Tongan language and cultural practices. They are encouraged to talk and learn in their own language. Children have regular opportunities to meet and play with other children across the network at playgroups and on trips.
Coordinators and educators have reviewed and adapted documentation for curriculum planning, assessment and evaluation. These updated records are shared with parents. The coordinators' monthly reports record information about the children's programmes and activities.
Coordinators benefit from both internal and external professional development relevant to the context and rapid growth of this new service. They participate in professional learning together. This support is helping to increase their understanding about effective practices that best promote children's education and care. Coordinators provide educators with support and guidance through monthly workshops and home visits.
Internal evaluation continues to be a key focus of professional development in the service, from strategic planning to curriculum provision. Developing evaluation practices would help the licensee and staff to achieve the service's strategic goals, and support each child's individual learning. An external facilitator will continue to support the coordinators' professional development in evaluation.
The service's appraisal processes are currently being developed to support coordinators and educators to develop their teaching practice. This term, the external facilitator will provide professional development to the licensee and coordinators to guide this work, and to align coordinators' appraisals with the Education Council requirements.
The licensee has identified relevant priorities for development that include:
ERO identified further next steps that include:
Before the review, the staff and management of Poimaino 4 Homebased Childcare completed an ERO Home-based Education and Care Assurance Statement and Self-Audit Checklist. In these documents they attested that they have taken all reasonable steps to meet their legal obligations related to:
During the review, ERO looked at the service’s systems for managing the following areas that have a potentially high impact on children's wellbeing:
All early childhood services are required to promote children's health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements.
After a recent audit by the Ministry of Education (MoE) the service has changed its practices regarding funding entitlement for educators who are family members. The MoE will carry out a review of these changes later this year.
The next ERO review of Poimaino 4 Homebased Childcare will be in three years.
Julie Foley
Deputy Chief Review Officer Northern (Acting)
Te Tai Raki - Northern Region
9 May 2018
The Education Review Office (ERO) is the government department that, as part of its work, reviews early childhood services throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. ERO’s reports provide information for parents and communities about each service’s strengths and next steps for development. ERO’s bicultural evaluation framework Ngā Pou Here is described in SECTION 3 of this report. Early childhood services are partners in the review process and are expected to make use of the review findings to enhance children's wellbeing and learning.
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Location |
Mangere East, Auckland |
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Ministry of Education profile number |
46991 |
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Institution type |
Homebased Network |
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Licensed under |
Education (Early Childhood Services) Regulations 2008 |
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Number licensed for |
60 children, including up to 60 aged under 2 |
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Service roll |
46 |
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Standard or Quality Funded |
Standard |
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Gender composition |
Boys 28 |
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Ethnic composition |
Pākehā |
2 |
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Number of qualified coordinators in the network |
1 |
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Required ratios of staff educators to children |
Under 2 |
1:2 |
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Over 2 |
1:4 |
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Review team on site |
January 2018 |
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Date of this report |
9 May 2018 |
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Most recent ERO report(s) |
No previous ERO reports |
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ERO’s overarching question for an early childhood education review is ‘How well placed is this service to promote positive learning outcomes for children?’ ERO focuses on the following factors as described in the bicultural framework Ngā Pou Here:
Within these areas ERO considers the effectiveness of arotake – self review and of whanaungatanga – partnerships with parents and whānau.
ERO evaluates how well placed a service is to sustain good practice and make ongoing improvements for the benefit of all children at the service.
A focus for the government is that all children, especially priority learners, have an opportunity to benefit from quality early childhood education. ERO will report on how well each service promotes positive outcomes for all children, with a focus on children who are Māori, Pacific, have diverse needs, and are up to the age of two.
For more information about the framework and Ngā Pou Here refer to the draft methodology for ERO reviews in Home-based Education and Care Services: July 2014
The overall judgement that ERO makes and the timing of the next review will depend on how well placed a service is to promote positive learning outcomes for children. The categories are:
ERO has developed criteria for each category. These are available on ERO’s website.
ERO reviews are tailored to each service’s context and performance, within the overarching review framework. The aim is to provide information on aspects that are central to positive outcomes for children and useful to the service.