A#

Adults providing education and care#

Hospital play specialists kaiako, teachers, supervisors, parent helpers, kaiāwhina, fa’iaoga, or other adults who have a designated role of providing education and care to children at a service and are included in required adult:child ratios.

Assessment#

The process of noticing children’s learning, recognising its significance, and responding in ways that foster further learning. It includes documenting some, but not necessarily all, of what and how children are learning in order to inform teaching and make learning visible.

C#

Culture#

The understandings, patterns of behaviour, practices, and values shared by a group of people.

E#

ECE#

Early childhood education.

Excursion#

Being outside the licensed premises whilst receiving education and care from the service but does not include an outing for the purposes of:

• emergency evacuations
• drills or
• the receipt of urgent medical attention.

P#

Parent#

• the person (or people) responsible for having the role of providing day-to-day care for the child, and
• may include a biological or adoptive parent, stepparent, partner of a parent of a child, legal guardian or member of the child’s family, whānau or other culturally recognised family group.

Policy#

Policy means a statement intended to influence and determine decisions, actions, and other matters. Policies are required to be implemented

Premises#

The parts of the hospital where children participating in the service receive early childhood education and care.

Procedure#

Procedure means a particular and established way of doing something. Procedures are required to be implemented.

Process#

A goal-directed, interrelated series of actions, events, procedures or steps.

R#

Records#

Information or data on a particular subject collected and preserved.

Regulation#

A regulation under the Education (Early Childhood Services) Regulations 2008.

Required adult:child ratio#

The adult:child ratio with which the service provider is required to comply under regulation 44(1)(b) or any direction by the Secretary under regulation 54(2).

S#

Service#

A hospital-based education and care service.

Service curriculum#

All of the experiences, interactions, activities and events – both direct and indirect, planned and spontaneous – that happen at the service. Teaching practices including planning, assessment, and evaluation form part of the service curriculum.

Service provider#

The body, agency, or person who or that operates the hospital-based education and care service.

Specified agency#

Any government agency or statutory body that an early childhood education and care service is required under legislation to notify if there is a serious (or as defined) injury, illness, incident involving a child. This may include but is not limited to:

1. the New Zealand Police
2. the Ministry of Health
3. Oranga Tamariki
4. WorkSafe New Zealand
5. the Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand.