High-quality childcare needs highly-qualified staff, but the cost often puts it out of parents' reach. The New Zealand government is making a concerted effort to tackle this conundrum with its Ten Year Strategic Plan for Early Childhood Education, 'Pathways to the Future', launched in 2002.
Karl Le Quesne, senior manager of the New Zealand Ministry of Education, came to address the Daycare Trust conference, 'Childcare 2007', last week. 'The primary goal of the plan is an education one, to strengthen children's learning foundations,' he said. 'Early childhood education and care can contribute to other goals, particularly parent's choices in working and studying, and giving children a better start more generally by helping to increase family earnings.'
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