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Ministry of Education New Zealand

If you need urgent help#

Traumatic incidents#

Traumatic incident teams are based in all our regional offices. You can contact them at any time.

Check the step-by-step guide to responding to traumatic emergencies or events:

Respond at school to an emergency or traumatic incident

Emergency response#

Get help to manage an incident or emergency – New Zealand School Property Agency

Education workforce payroll#

Contact your school payroll administrator.

For school payroll administrators, email us.

Email: [email protected]

For employees without a school payroll administrator, email us.

Email: [email protected]

Employment relations#

Email: [email protected]

General enquiries#

Phone: +64 4 463 8000

Email: [email protected]

Reception, deliveries and couriers#

Mātauranga House
33 Bowen Street
Wellington 6011

Postal address#

PO Box 1666
Wellington 6140
DX Number: SR51201

Holidays Act remediation payment for former Ministry employees#

Email: [email protected]

Find out about the process on how to get a Holidays Act remediation payment below.

Privacy#

You can request access to information we hold about you and contact our Privacy Officer.

Email: [email protected]

Research and data requests#

Email: [email protected]

School finances#

Contact your regional advisor

Email: [email protected]

Otherwise, you can locate your regional school financial advisor in the guide below.

Schools payroll remediation#

Email: [email protected]

Phone: +64 800 439 333

School property#

You'll find the New Zealand School Property Agency (NZSPA) property advisors contact details on the NZSPA website.

NZSPA property advisors – NZSPA

Schools resourcing and ECE funding#

Email: [email protected]

Phone: +64 4 463 8383

Service desk for schools, early learning services and tertiary organisations#

Education Service Desk#

This service desk helps schools, early learning services and tertiary organisations with account issues relating to:

  • Education Sector Logon (ESL)
  • Ministry tools and applications
  • Identity and Access Management (IAM). 

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 0800 422 599

You can reach us from 7.30am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday.

Traumatic incident team#

Contact the traumatic incident team if your school or ECE needs support to manage a crisis.

Free phone 24/7: +64 800 848 326 (NZ only)

Website feedback#

If there's a problem with our website or you need help, contact us.

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Information

Contact us through New Zealand Relay

New Zealand Relay is a free service that helps people who are:

  • Deaf
  • Deafblind
  • experiencing hearing loss
  • have speech communication difficulty.

If you need help to phone us, contact the New Zealand Relay help desk.

New Zealand Relay