- Apply for an early learning service licence or certification
- Introduction to early learning services
- Licences to operate in early childhood education and care
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Starting a centre-based ECE service
- Early childhood education and care legislation and regulations
- Designing and building your new ECE service premises
- Complying with indoor premises and facilities licensing criteria
- Complying with outdoor premises and facilities licensing criteria
- Equipment for early childhood services
- Governance and management roles and responsibilities
- Preparing for staff employment
- Preparing policies, procedures and processes
- Administration records
- Annual plan and budget
- Fees and funding
- The Early Learning Information (ELI) System
- Required assessments, approvals and registrations
- Applying for a licence
- Guides for starting an early childhood service
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Starting a home-based ECE service
- Early childhood education and care regulations
- Home-based service operating models
- The home-based education and care home environment
- Health and safety standards and emergencies
- Home-based education and care premises and facilities
- Governance and management roles
- Managing your service
- Roles and responsibilities in a home-based education and care service
- Preparing policies, procedures and processes
- Administration records
- Annual plan and budget
- Fees and funding
- The Early Learning Information (ELI) System
- Applying for a licence
- Starting a playgroup
- Starting a puna kōhungahunga (Māori language playgroup)
- Information to assist applicants
- Information to assist home-based applicants
- Useful contact information
Early childhood education and care regulations
Licensed home-based education and care services are required to comply with the legislative and regulatory standards and criteria set out in the:
Education and Training Act 2020 – New Zealand Legislation
Education (Early Childhood Services) Regulations 2008 – New Zealand Legislation
Licensing criteria for home-based education and care services
A licensed home-based service is eligible to receive government funding and must comply with the Ministry of Education funding rules in order to do so.
The quality of the education and care provided by the service is also reviewed regularly by the Education Review Office.
Service providers can talk to the Education Review Office to request the licensing assessment tool for home-based ECE services or find out more about ECE regulations and criteria.