Early childhood education pays off - now and in the future. Increased public funding to ECE services not only realises the educational and social benefits for children but also helps ease the financial pressure on households.
The seventh edition of our Whānau Pānui : Family Newsletter was published this month.
The Labour candidate for the new Kāpiti electorate, Sophie Handford, visited Whānau Manaaki’s Porirua office last week to find out more about our programmes and policies that affect education.
Kaiako from kindergartens and other services, kindergarten parents, union activists, sector leaders, academics and others gathered this week for the Early Childhood Summit to discuss the perils of deregulation and privatisation in the early childhood sector.
This week 135 staff from across our four support offices (Whanganui, Taranaki, Porirua and South Otago) came together for an office hui in Porirua.
A meeting at Le Fale Jobs and Skills Hub in Cannons Creek, Porirua this week considered how creating a living wage city could improve the lives of families and children in the community.
From 2 March 2026 Kindergarten Taranaki will join with Whānau Manaaki Kindergartens.
A Kindergartens Aotearoa delegation appearing before the select committee yesterday, raising serious concerns about proposed changes to the Education and Training Amendment Bill.
Partnership to Provide Free Hearing and Vision Testing
Kindergartens Aotearoa, an organisation representing 260 kindergartens around the country from Auckland’s North Shore to South Otago, supports schools and kura that continue to recognise and honour Te Tiriti despite a government move to change the law.
