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Chapter 2: How the Ministry funds services

Early Childhood Education (ECE) services must be licensed under the Education (Early Childhood Services) Regulations 2008 in order to access government funding.

Date published: 23 September 2024

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Compliance: Required

In this chapter

This chapter contains the following topics:

The link between licensing and funding: 2-1

Types of funding: 2-2

Other sources of ECE funding (removed April 2015): 2-3

When and how funding is paid: 2-4

The link between costs and funding rates: 2-5

Funding rates: 2-6

Recovery of early childhood education funding: 2-7