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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: 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: 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
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: 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: 21 May 2021
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: 02 Aug 2021
Resources to support evaluation for improvement in early childhood services
Published: 31 Mar 2021
We carry out external evaluations at early childhood services, schools and kura to provide information on their performance and to support improvement for high quality education.
Published: 13 Apr 2021
Ngā Ara Whai Hua: Quality Framework for Evaluation and Improvement in Early Childhood Services outlines our approach to review and evaluation for accountability and improvement.
Published: 20 Oct 2021
Published: 31 Oct 2022
Published: 06 Apr 2021
If you are dissatisfied with your experience with us, please let us know. We respond to complaints promptly and treat everyone with courtesy, respect and fairness.
Published: 31 Mar 2021
Develops evaluation tools and frameworks for ERO’s reviews; and develops and supports professional development.
Published: 02 Sep 2020
This Judgement Rubric is an evaluation tool for use in ERO’s evaluations of early childhood services and by the services in their internal evaluation. The rubric is based on the indicators in Te Ara Poutama|Indicators of quality for early childhood education: what matters most.
Published: 03 Sep 2021
Published: 30 Jun 2015
The Education Review Office (ERO)'s Strategic Intentions sets out our objectives and how ERO contributes to the Government's priorities for education.
Published: 30 Jun 2020
The Education Review Office (ERO)'s Strategic Intentions 2020-2024 sets out our objectives and how ERO contributes to the Government's priorities for education.
Published: 04 Mar 2021
ERO reviews all early childhood services, kōhanga reo, schools and kura to help their learners flourish. We focus on what’s working well for learners/ākonga and what can improve.
Published: 11 Dec 2020
ERO publishes an annual report each year.
Our annual report sets out the operating context, our strategic direction, what we aimed to achieve over the previous 12 months, and what we did achieve.
It also outlines our role and the scope of our functions, reports on organisational health and capability, and includes our financial statements and service performance.
