Official Information Act requests and responses

People in New Zealand can make a request for official information held by ERO and view the responses where the information is in public interest.

Responses to Official Information Act Requests

We publish responses to Official Information Act (OIA) requests where substantive information are of public interest.

Personal details of requesters are removed. For additional information or to lodge a request, please email: info@ero.govt.nz

OIA responses by date

15 May 2024
- OIA 24 - 182 - Total remuneration positions between $95k and $100k [PDF 326 KB]
7 May 2024
- OIA 24 - 178 - Artificial Information Policy [PDF 210 KB]
1 May 2024
- OIA 24 - 169 - Spending on Public Relations and Communications Support [PDF 373 KB]
18 April 2024
- OIA 24 - 168 - Algorithm Charter of Aotearoa New Zealand [PDF 236 KB]
14 March 2024
- OIA 24 - 161 - Learning Engagement Measurement Tool [PDF 265 KB]
  - Learning Engagement Measurement Tool [PDF 934 KB]
13 March 2024
- OIA 24 - 164 - Briefings to the Minister to support conversations with lobbying groups [PDF 404 KB]
10 March 2024
- OIA 24 - 167 - Cook Islands Māori Language [PDF 232 KB]
4 March 2024
- OIA 24 - 163 - Secondary briefings to the Minister [PDF 312 KB]
22 February 2024
- OIA 24 - 154 Government Department Strategies Index [PDF 265 KB]
16 February 2024
- OIA 24 – 157 - Internal restructures FY 18-19 [PDF 216 KB]
  - Operating Model Decision Document 2018 [PDF 1.49 MB]
15 February 2024
- OIA 24 – 156 - Evaluation of Counselling in Schools [PDF 189 KB]
13 February 2024
- OIA 24 - 153 - ICT Roles [PDF 1.02 MB]
8 February 2024
- OIA 24 - 158 - Disinfection protocols - regulation and licensing criteria for Early Childhood Centres [PDF 206 KB]
21 December 2023
- OIA 23-143 - Branding and Websites [PDF 348 KB]
12 December 2023
- OIA 23-146 - Coalition negotiations [PDF 329]
8 December 2023
- OIA 23-142 - Request of incoming minister briefing documents [PDF 207 KB]
1 December 2023
- OIA 23-141 - use of te reo Mâori [PDF 210 KB]
13 November 2023
- OIA 23-133 - Shiloh Christian Academy [PDF 207 KB]
20 July 2023
- OIA 23-107 - Number of media requests [PDF 214 KB]
11 July 2023
- OIA 23-101 - An Evaluation of Service Academies [PDF 230 KB]
11 July 2023
- OIA 23-103 - Complaints made to ERO about schools [PDF 228 KB]
3 July 2023
- OIA 23-98 - Special Review of Bethlehem College [PDF 250 KB]
  Note that since this letter's release on 3 July 2023, a wording error, in reference to the Association of Proprietors of Integrated Schools, has been corrected.
30 June 2023
- OIA 23-97 - Bethlehem College Review [PDF 230 KB]
27 June 2023
- OIA 23-99 - List of schools who have undergone the Wellbeing@School survey [PDF 239 KB]
3 May 2023
- OIA 23-86 - Briefings, aides-memoire, memos, cabinet papers [PDF 326 KB]
26 April 2023
- OIA 23-83 - Toitū [PDF 338 KB]
3 February 2023
- OIA 23-78 - Dilworth [PDF 209 KB]
12 January 2023
- OIA 22-75 - Staff Christmas Parties [PDF 244 KB]
30 November 2022
- OIA 22-76 - Social Media Expenses [PDF 212 KB]
28 November 2022
- OIA 22-60 - Staff Leave [PDF 229 KB]
22 November 2022
- OIA 22-73 - Staff/Contractors [PDF 231 KB]
14 November 2022
- OIA 99-55 - Comms staff and OIAs [PDF 226 KB]
15 September 2022
- OIA 99-37 - Korn Ferry [PDF 214 KB]
25 August 2022
- OIA 22-30 - Spend on social media advertising [PDF 221 KB]
22 August 2022
- OIA 99-23 - Drug testing employees [PDF 215 KB]
27 July 2022
- OIA 22-27 - Hato Pāora College, Hato Petera College - ERO reports [PDF 192 KB]
  - 2009 Hato Paora College [PDF 113 KB]
  - 2012 Hato Paora College [PDF 260 KB]
  - 2009 Hato Petera College [PDF 107 KB]
  - 2010 Hato Petera College [PDF 147 KB]
  - 2012 Hato Petera College [PDF 114 KB]
  - 2014 Hato Petera College [PDF 203 KB]
  - 2017 Hato Petera College [PDF 247 KB]
26 July 2022
- OIA 22-28 - Advertising, FTE staff Office Space [PDF 254 KB]
13 July 2022
- OIA 22-20 - Documents containing office’s policy/templates on te
  reo Māori use/ Directives from the Minister about use of te reo Māori [PDF 243 KB]
  - Associate Minister of Education style guide [PDF 232 KB]
  - Te Ara Huarau School Notification email [PDF 230 KB]
12 May 2022
- OIA 22-19 - FTE staff and Office Space [PDF 233 KB]
27 April 2022
- OIA 22-18 - Executive/senior leadership away days [PDF 217 KB]
20 April 2022
- OIA 22-17 - Masters Applied Management qualification [PDF 239 KB]
30 March 2022
- OIA 22-16 - Budget bids for additional resources for OIA handling [PDF 217 KB]
22 March 2022
- OIA 22-15 - Information regarding Crime Scene Cleaners [PDF 209 KB]
24 February 2022
- OIA22-6 - Mobile Phone Policy [PDF 211 KB]
23 February 2022
- OIA22-9 - Home Schooling Evaluations [PDF 234 KB]
15 February 2022
- OIA22-1 - Impact of 2021 lockdowns on
  student learning progress and well-being [PDF 244 KB]
  - Summary of Student Survey Results [PDF 567 KB]
  - Covid reporting [PDF 91 KB]
31 January 2022
- OIA22-3 - Government Department Strategies Index [PDF 203 KB]
17 December 2021
- OIA21-60 - Official Information Act 1982 Request – All analyses, assessments, advice evalautions and reports ERO has produced or received regarding Māori Medium and Kaupapa Māori Education [PDF 234 KB]
17 December 2021
- OIA21-59 - Advice, comments or recommendations ERO provided on supplementary report on mathematics and statistics skills [PDF 224 KB]
13 December 2021
- OIA21-62 - Treasury’s Living Standards Framework and He Ara Wairoa [PDF 171 KB]
13 October 2021
- OIA21-48 - All advice provided to Government Ministers since August 2021 community outbreak of delta variant of Covid-19 [PDF 240 KB]
30 September 2021
- OIA21-51 - Public Sector Carbon Neutrality Accountability Project [PDF 263 KB]
19 August 2021
- OIA21-39 - Briefing Reports [PDF 247 KB]
15 July 2021
- OIA21-30 - All official advice provided to any Government Minister since October 2017 [PDF 233 KB]
15 July 2021
- OIA21-29 - Briefing Reports [PDF 228 KB]
15 June 2021
- OIA21-24 - COVID19 recovery response measures [PDF 248 KB]
6 May 2021
- OIA21-19 - Drug and alcohol pathology testing [PDF 233 KB]
6 May 2021
- OIA21-14 - Tsunami evacuation plans for medium to high risk schools. [PDF 256 KB)
15 March 2021
- OIA21-6 - OIA requests held and published by ERO. [PDF 281 KB]
26 February 2021
- OIA21-5 - Complaints made to the Education Review Office by students [PDF (261 KB]
28 January 2021
- OIA21 - 1 Update, Nation Dates, GDS Index and OIA 2020/07 [PDF 258 KB]
12 October 2020
- OIA21-8 - ERO's new methodology for schools [PDF 225 KB]
  - Appendix 1 [PDF 82 KB]
  - Appendix 2 [PDF 154 KB]
3 August 2020
- OIA 20-38 Greenhouse gas footprint and policies [PDF 228 KB]
30 June 2020
- OIA20–30 Data to support our theory that high quality ECE is one of the factors that is supporting young children to be healthy [PDF 194 KB] |
- Follow up [PDF 206 KB]
23 July 2020
- OIA 20-42 Statistics for OIA charging [PDF 234 KB]
7 July 2020
- OIA20-20 Working from home [PDF 260 KB]
- OIA20-20 Document 1 [PDF 77 KB]
- OIA20-20 Document 2 [PDF 108 KB]
- OIA20-20 Document 3 [PDF 141 KB]
10 June 2020
- OIA20-25 Monitoring/productivity measuring software/tools used to monitor ERO staff [PDF 231 KB]
15 May 2020
- OIA20-22 Uniform garments [PDF 128 KB]
4 May 2020
- OIA20-18 COVID-19 Voluntary Pay Cut. [PDF 258 KB]
25 March 2020
- OIA20-13 A gender breakdown of the 10 highest-remunerated staff [PDF 253 KB]
3 March 2020
- OIA20-10 Items 17 - 18 of the Self-Audit Checklists [PDF 257 KB]
19 February 2020
- OIA20-4 Education and Care Centres reviewed in 2018 and 2019 [PDF 180 KB]
30 January 2020
- OIA20-5 Use of application ‘Tik Tok’ on mobile phone. [PDF 245 KB]
8 October 2019
- OIA 19-50 ERO Review Cycles and judgements for schools by decile, 2015-2019 [PDF 999 KB]
20 September 2019
- OIA 18-37 Hold music [PDF 1,933 KB]
2 September 2019
- OIA19-46 Private Secretaries [PDF 542 KB]
13 August 2019
- OIA 19-43 Privacy Act requests [PDF 760 KB]
9 August 2019
- OIA 18-30 ERO policy information [PDF 357 KB]
8 August 2019
- OIA 19-44 Online advertising spend [PDF 234 KB]
1 August 2019
- OIA 19-42 Leave entitlement [PDF 116 KB]
17 June 2019
- OIA 19-32 Hacking attempts [PDF 121 KB]
28 May 2019
- OIA 19-28 Payments to social media influencers [PDF 121 KB]
18 April 2019
- OIA 19-25 Parental leave policies and procedures [PDF 372 KB]
12 April 2019
- OIA 19-24 Use of April fools jokes by staff [PDF 113 KB]
27 March 2019
- OIA 19-21 OIA requests and costs [PDF 122 KB]
25 March 2019
- OIA 19-17 ECE reports confirmed in 2018 [PDF 228 KB]
7 March 2019
- OIA 19-15 New furniture and office supplies [PDF 130 KB]
20 February 2019
- OIA 19-13 Prevention of suspension and exclusion from school [PDF 129 KB]
3 December 2018
- OIA 18-48 Koru club memberships [PDF 2,066 KB]
23 November 2018
- OIA 18-49 ECEs reviewed in 2017 and 2018 [PDF 1,627 KB]
7 November 2018
- OIA 18-44 Government Department Strategies [PDF 509 KB]

Published: 06 Apr 2021

Audience:: Academics; Early learning; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools