15 Gatman Street, Birkdale, Auckland
View on mapAkarangi | Quality Evaluation evaluates the extent to which this early childhood service has the learning and organisational conditions to support equitable and excellent outcomes for all learners. Te Ara Poutama Indicators of quality for early childhood education: what matters most are the basis for making judgements about the effectiveness of the service in achieving equity and excellence for all learners. Judgements are made in relation to the Outcomes Indicators, Learning and Organisational Conditions. The Evaluation Judgement Rubric derived from the indicators, is used to inform ERO’s judgements about this service’s performance in promoting equity and excellence.
ERO’s judgements for Next Generation are as follows:
Outcome Indicators(What the service knows about outcomes for learners) | Whāngai Establishing |
Ngā Akatoro Domains | |
Learning ConditionsOrganisational Conditions | Whāngai Establishing Whāngai Establishing |
Next Generation is one of the four services under the ownership of Next Generation Childcare Company Limited. An experienced management team, including the director of the company, oversee the day-to-day running of the centre. They lead a team of five qualified teachers and one unqualified staff member. A small number of children with Pacific heritages are enrolled.
Children benefit from a calm environment where they are valued as individuals. Teachers support children’s wellbeing through respectful interactions. Transitions into, within and from the service onto school respond to children’s individual needs. As a result, children’s sense of belonging at this service is well supported.
Children’s learning and development is enhanced by the play-based curriculum provided. They have ongoing opportunities to engage in uninterrupted play. This positively promotes their independence, concentration and decision-making. Some teachers purposefully weave te reo Māori into their interactions with children and aim to ensure basic tikanga Māori practices are visible within routines.
Leaders and teachers collaboratively develop and maintain reciprocal relationships with parents and whānau. Teachers are yet to effectively use information shared by parents to provide a curriculum that is responsive to all children’s languages, cultures and identity.
A newly introduced software platform enables teachers to document children’s learning. Leaders are now supporting teachers to increase their skills to use this platform. Teachers are working towards using the learning outcomes in Te Whāriki, early childhood curriculum, to inform curriculum planning and to evaluate children’s increasing capabilities and progression over time.
The governance team works well together to implement operational systems. Managers and teachers contribute to developing and implementing the service’s policies and practices. Leaders have recently introduced a peer support initiative that aims to grow teachers’ professional practice. They have also appointed a curriculum leader to have oversight of curriculum planning and assessment processes.
Processes for internal evaluation have been developed. Leaders recognise they need to increase teachers’ capability to do and use evaluation for ongoing quality improvement. This will support the wider organisation to plan for and progress their long-term strategic priorities.
Next Generation will include the following actions in its Quality Improvement Planning:
The Next Generation organisation will include the following actions in its Quality Improvement Planning:
Before the review, the staff and management of Next Generation completed an ERO 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.
During the review, the service provided ERO with evidence to show the following non-compliance has been addressed:
Patricia Davey
Director of Early Childhood Education (ECE)
8 December 2023
| Early Childhood Service Name | Next Generation |
| Profile Number | 47492 |
| Location | Birkdale, Auckland |
| Service type | Education and care service |
| Number licensed for | 30 children over the age of two years |
| Percentage of qualified teachers | 100% |
| Service roll | 27 |
| Review team on site | October 2023 |
| Date of this report | 8 December 2023 |
| Most recent ERO report(s) | Akanuku | Assurance Review, December 2020 |
ERO’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 |
| Curriculum | Meeting |
| Premises and facilities | Meeting |
| Health and safety | Meeting |
| Governance, management and administration | Meeting |
At the time of the review, ERO found the service was taking reasonable steps to meet regulatory standards.
Next Generation is privately owned, and is one of four Next Generation services, all situated on the North Shore. The service caters for children aged two and under four years of age. There are three qualified teachers and a teacher in training. Next Generation area managers and central policy frameworks support the centre’s operations.
The service programme is inclusive and responsive to children as confident and competent learners. Children’s preferences are respected, and they are involved in decisions about their learning experiences. Teachers provide a language-rich environment and a range of experiences and opportunities to enhance and extend children’s learning and development. Adults engage in meaningful, positive interactions to enhance children’s learning and nurture reciprocal relationships. Children are supported to develop social competence and an understanding of appropriate behaviour.
Next steps include developing the curriculum so that children become confident in their own culture and develop an understanding and respect for other cultures.
The next ERO review is likely to be an Akarangi | Quality Evaluation.
Steve Tanner
Director Review and Improvement Services (Northern)
Northern Region | Te Tai Raki
24 December 2020
| Early Childhood Service Name | Next Generation |
| Profile Number | 47492 |
| Location | Birkdale, Auckland |
| Service type | Education and care service |
| Number licensed for | 30 children over 2 |
| Percentage of qualified teachers | 80%+ |
| Service roll | 27 |
| Ethnic composition | Māori 5 NZ European/Pākehā 18 other ethnic groups 4 |
| Review team on site | November 2020 |
| Date of this report | 24 December 2020 |
| Most recent ERO report(s) | First ERO review of the service. |
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 licence to operate.
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:
As part of an Akanuku | Assurance Review ERO assesses whether the regulated 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:
As part of an Akanuku | Assurance Review ERO also gathers and records evidence through: