History of Early Childhood services

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    History of Early Childhood services

  • Parish work houses

  • London Foundling homes for infants

    Foundling homes are homes for abandoned children
    Opened by Thomas Coram

  • First book on child rearing written

    Written by Dr William Cadgon

  • Protestant and Catholic orphan homes opened in Australia

  • Kindergartens appear throughout Germany

  • Sisters of Mercy founded an orphanage in Auckland

  • Parnell Orphan Home opened

    Opened by the Anglican Church

  • Neglected Criminal Child's Act

    Opening of institutions for neglected children

  • Institutes opened for orphaned and destitute children

    10 were opened

  • Dunedin Creche formed

  • Industrial Schools Act

    This allowed fostering

  • First Kindergarten opened in Dunedin

  • First Foundling homes in NZ began

    Started and run by Mother Aubert
    Children's Protection Act
    Infants under one accounted for a quarter of deaths in the population

  • Infant Life Protection Act

    People who were being paid to look after children under 2 years old for more than three days in a row had to become proper foster parents and be open to police inspections

  • Adoption of Children Act

  • World Congress for women

    Protection for children in family and workplaces

  • Motherhood seen as a valued occupation

  • First creche in Wellington

  • Professional baby farmer convicted of murder

    Name was Mary Anne Guy

  • Infant mortalities drop to lowest in the world

  • Plunket movement begins in Dunedin

  • Karitane Home for babies opened in Dunedin

  • Plunket branches and Karitane hospitals opened

    60 branches with Plunket nurses
    6 Karitane hospitals

  • Mother Craft Manual Released

    Called "Feeding and Care for Baby"

  • The Great Depression

  • Dunedin Nursery started

  • Elizabeth McCombs became first female MP

    Created a community creche run by the council

  • Free Kindergartens and charitable creches established

    34 free kindergartens
    2 charitable creches

  • New Playcentre movement

  • 40 Playcentres established

  • NZ Playcentre Federation is created

  • Promotion of child-centred programmes

    Moira Bell nee Callagher

  • Playcentre and kindergarten create workforce of women in preschool education

    Right through to 1960

  • Training moved to Teacher's College

    As well as recruitment

  • 92 Playcentres

    "Playcentre receive 2,635 pounds and kindergartens 247,000 pounds from the government'

  • NZ Free Kindergarten Association formed

    Attempts to have co-operation between playcentres and kindergartens

  • Negotiation of employment conditions

  • First Chilcare Regulations in NZ

  • First married woman accepted into primary/preschool training

  • Cultural awareness accepted in centres/schools

  • All Kindergartens staffed with fully trained teachers

  • Funding cuts

    Closure of Karitane hospitals which wre replaced by day units
    Plunket Karitane Family Centre

  • Change in Plunket's philosphy

    Identification of a child's development between 0 and 5 years

  • Government introduces subsidies for those who could not afford childcare

  • Commissioning of a report on childcare issues

    Commissed by Governement
    Found the need for beetr regulations and more training

  • National car seat rental programme started

  • Forerunner to Kohanga Reo

    Kohanga Reo is Maori immersion language programme

  • Government introduces grants to support further early childhood training

  • Early Childhood education put under the Department of Education

    It used to be under the department of Social Welfare

  • The Department of Education became the Ministry of Education

    "Whose primary role was to focus on policy development and funding. Government report on E.C.E published “Education to be more”

  • "Before Fives" reform

  • Curriculum

    Acknowledge biculturalism

  • New Early Childhood centres opened

    Between 1990 and 1997, 1029 opened

  • First University begins an Early Childhood department

    Waikato University

  • Budget impacts

    "Fees go up and wages go down.
    Cut in kindergarten ratios but increase of roll numbers.
    Ratio’s for funding for under 2 children was reduced and redirected towards a government led initiative “PAFT’ "

  • First Early Childhood curriculum in New Zealand

    Te Whariki

  • Quality in Action and Regulations released

  • 10 Year strategic plan written

  • Areas of Innovation named

    6 of them

  • Kei Tua o te Pae assessment for learning

  • 20 hours free childcare introduced

    By labour government

  • Updated early Childhood regulation released

  • Budget impacts

    "announces removal of 100% funding rate.
    20 hours extended to include- 5 yr olds, Kohanga Reo and Playcentre.
    80-100% new funding rate will be reduced
    Reduction in funding for 80% rate."

  • Closure of the Aubert Childcare Centre in Wellington

    Asbestos in the roof, which was too expensive to repair

  • ERO Report "Early Childhood Education: Inclusion of Children with Special Needs' released

  • Vulnerable Children Act

  • 'Authentic Bicultural Practice' Conference

    Happening on 22 September 2016 in Lower Hutt.
    Early Childhood Education is always evolving... there is always more to learn