An enhanced focus on quality and improvement in Early Learning Services
Published: 18 May 2021
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- Schools
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Published: 18 May 2021
Published: 25 Jul 2022
The responsibility of keeping tamariki safe while in the care of their school, kura, and early learning service is the responsibility of every adult.
In the education system, ERO plays an integral role in their protection by reviewing and having an oversight of effective child protection policies and processes. We aim to provide schools and early learning services with the ability to quickly identify any gaps in their policies and processes.
Published: 31 Mar 2021
This section explains what reviews we do and how we review your early childhood service. This includes centre-based, home-based and hospital-based education and care services. It explains our different approaches to reviews Akanuku | Assurance Reviews, Akarangi | Quality Evaluations and Education Reviews.
Published: 18 May 2021
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has had a profound impact on all aspects of life around the world. In Aotearoa New Zealand, significant disruption to ECE and schooling has occurred through lockdowns, closure of individual centres and schools, changing alert levels, and from the ongoing uncertainty.
Published: 29 Apr 2021
ERO is updating its approach to review and evaluation, initially in centre-based early childhood services
Published: 12 Apr 2021
This Handbook covers relevant legislation and requirements that early learning services and kōhanga reo must follow. Our review officers use this Handbook as part of their review. It does not represent the official versions of the Acts, regulations and other requirements. We recommend referring to the full legislation and requirements when needed.
Published: 31 Mar 2021
Te Ara Poutama is the core of Ngā Ara Whai Hui: Quality Framework for Evaluation and Improvement in Early Childhood Services. This is the framework for ERO’s approaches to reviewing early childhood services. The indicators, for outcomes and processes, are a central resource for use by ERO and the services themselves in evaluating quality in early childhood education and identifying where improvement is needed.
Published: 25 Jul 2022
Review findings over the last few years have identified a growing concern about the rate of non-compliance with regulatory standards and associated licensing criteria in early childhood services.
Over the last three years, ERO found only a slight improvement in the percentage of services meeting regulatory standards from 74-76% in 2020 to 80% in 2022. Services with non-compliance that pose an unacceptable risk to children rose by 4%, from 8% in 2020 to 12% in 2022.
Published: 24 May 2021
In a scan of the current landscape, Cooper highlights the increasing participation of infants and toddlers in early learning settings, ongoing concerns about the quality of provision for infants and toddlers, and a reported lack of cultural responsiveness in many settings.
Published: 06 Apr 2020
The newly developed indicators of quality for early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand are now available on the ERO website.
Published: 21 May 2021
Published: 04 Apr 2024
New research from the Education Review Office (ERO) has found that the new Aotearoa New Zealand’s Histories Curriculum is being taught in all schools, but not all of the content is being taught.
Published: 19 Jun 2020
Learning from home under Covid Level 4 and Level 3.
Published: 02 Aug 2021
Our 3 newly published Early Childhood Education sector resources complete the suite of Ngā Ara Whai Hua resources that support evaluation for improvement in early childhood services.
Published: 25 Jul 2022
You will find the complete suite of resources that support evaluation for improvement in early childhood services on this page.
Published: 31 Mar 2021
Evaluates the performance of the education system, the effectiveness of programmes and interventions, and shines a light on good practice.
Published: 15 Apr 2021
This page outlines the criteria that we use in our Education Reviews, of hospital-based early childhood services, to make an overall judgement of how well the service promotes positive learning outcomes for children, or contributes to children's learning and promotes their wellbeing.
Published: 20 Oct 2021
Published: 10 Dec 2020
Insights Newsletter from Nicholas Pole, Te Tumu Whakarae mō te Arotake Mātauranga | Chief Executive and Chief Review Officer
Published: 25 Jun 2020
Insights Newsletter from Nicholas Pole, Te Tumu Whakarae mō te Arotake Mātauranga | Chief Executive and Chief Review Officer