![]() The Ministry of Education ensures the protection of kindergarten teacher salaries and parity with primary and we ask the Government to ask the Ministry to show the same responsibility toward all teachers who work in all other licensed publicly funded ECE. The salary attestation rates should be the same rates as the Ministry of Education has agreed to in the terms of settlement for the KTCA, dated 12 July 2019. The Ministry must, as Dr Sarah Alexander of ChildForum has argued, raise the attestation rates that ECE services must agree to pay all their qualified and certificated teachers to access higher rates of funding for employing certificated teachers. We ask the Ministry of Education to publicly acknowledge that it values teachers in ECE by immediately addressing pay discrimination. Since it was presented to Hon Hipkins and not the House of Representatives it has not been lodged on the official record at Parliament. The petition did not request pay parity for early childhood teachers. The petition asked the Government to fulfil its previous promise to NZEI to restore funding to service providers for 100% qualified teachers and to lower adult-child ratios. NZEI also ran a petition that it presented to Minister Hipkins with around 8,000 signatures (according to a Stuff article). However, she and members of the Pay Parity steering group looked forward to working with NZEI when it decides to back the Pay Parity campaign. NZEI representatives at the meeting indicated that NZEI was progressing with making a pay equity claim through the courts.ĭr Alexander said that NZEI had not supported efforts to achieve pay parity for all of ECE on the basis that a teacher is a teacher whatever part of the sector they work in and it had sought to undermine James’ pay parity petition. The Pay Parity Campaign was launched by ChildForum with the support of a small group of volunteers (forming a Steering Group) after ChildForum organised a national meeting on 14 July 2019. Teachers in ECE have the same training and must meet the same professional standards to be teachers and because of this it is not right that they do not have pay parity with their peers working in schools and non-state owned ‘free’ kindergartens,” she said. “Clearly, society today values training and qualifications for staff working in early childhood education. Also attending were Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick and Hon Nikki Kaye along with the Pay Parity Campaign team (Dr Sarah Alexander, Karen Girvan, David Haynes, Bethany O’Hagan) and supporters.Īnd it is official – the petition has been accepted by the House of Representatives and referred to the Education and Workforce Select Committee.ĭr Sarah Alexander said that in the history of ECE this will come to be recognised as a highly significant event. On 4 December 2019, James presented the petition to Nicola Willis, MP on the steps of Parliament. (Please see below for a copy of the petition and signatories.) There were 15,280 signatories when the pay parity petition was printed in preparation for it to be brought to Wellington by teacher James Lochead-MacMillan, however online the number is greater than this as people continued to sign it. That the House of Representatives urge the Ministry of Education to ensure pay parity with primary teachers for all Early Childhood Education Teachers working in any licensed publicly funded provider, and note that 15,280 people have signed an online petition in support of this. Researching – Help Area for Teacher-Researchers.Learning Activities – Outside the Box Ideas.Children’s Health, Attachment and Wellbeing. ![]() ![]()
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