✨ Early Childhood Education Enrolment Policy
Section 1
Early Childhood Education (ECE)
General
The purpose of the ECE enrolment gateways is to provide equity of access to early childhood education for children whose location, health, educational or personal circumstances prevent attendance at a reasonably convenient service.
The two categories are Access and Referral.
Parents/caregivers can self-refer children meeting the criteria for the Access category gateways to Te Kura. ECE enrolments through the Referral category gateways must have the support specified.
Eligibility
Children may be enrolled in a full-time Early Childhood Education programme where they are:
(a) New Zealand citizens or permanent residents or domestic students1; and
(b) under the age of 6 (i.e. 5 years of age or under); and
(c) not enrolled in a primary school, or about to be enrolled within the first two weeks of February that year; and
(d) not enrolled in a licensed and/or chartered ECE service for more than two four-hour sessions a week; and
(e) within one of the following enrolment categories and fit the criteria for a gateway where a vacancy is available.
A child ceases to be eligible for enrolment when age or changed circumstances mean that the gateway criteria under which they were enrolled are no longer met.
Priority
Children whose access to ECE is limited by their rural location and geographic isolation will normally be given first priority for enrolment.
Children approved by Te Kura as eligible for entry but for whom a vacancy is not immediately available will have their names placed on a wait list. Wait-listed children will normally be admitted to Te Kura in age order, oldest first.
1 Refer Ministry of Education Circular 2009/01 – Eligibility for enrolment in New Zealand Schools
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NZ Gazette 2010, No 175
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