Education Summary of Initiatives 2023
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Te Takuhe Kura Kōhungaguna 20 Hāora – Te Whakawhānui ki ngā Tamariki Rua Tau Operating Funding
Capital Funding
Five-year operating total: 1,241.620 million Ten-year capital total: 1.095 million |
This initiative provides funding to extend the 20 Hours Early Childhood Education (ECE) subsidy that is currently available for three to five-year-olds to two-year-olds. This is intended to reduce the cost of ECE for parents by reducing ECE service fees. This will help parents manage their day-to-day living costs while also providing scope for additional uptake of ECE for parents where cost has been a barrier to participation.
Note: a saving of $43.234 million from Vote Social development is offsetting the total cost to $1.198 billion |
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Mātauranga Aronga Kē – Pēhanga Utu Operating Funding:
Capital Funding:
Five-year operating total: 41.115 million Ten-year capital total: 0.255 million |
This initiative increases the per place rate for alternative education to $16,536 to address historic underfunding. Annually this will support over 2,000 Years 9 -13 ākonga who are at risk of or are disengaged from education to reengage. It also funds $3.5 million annually for regional implementation of intensive support options for younger cohorts, and ongoing funding of Te Tupu Managed Moves. |
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Te Kōpaki Huringa Taenga Kura Operating Funding
Five-year operating total 73.708 million |
This initiative addresses Attendance Service volume and cost pressures, improves capacity for intensive support to reengage the most complex cases, supports service provider professional development and the development of a business case to improve the Attendance Service case management system. It provides new roles to support schools to turnaround irregular attendance. It also seeks to improve quality, understanding and use of data; and engage more effectively with evidence based local collaboration activities to support school attendance and engagement. |
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Ngā Takuhe Noho – Whakapikinga Tautoko mā ngā Ākonga Noho Tawhiti Operating Funding:
Five-year operating total: 1.785 million |
This initiative increases the funding pool for boarding allowances by around 4.5 percent to increase boarding allowances for geographically isolated students, particularly those on offshore islands. |
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Te Hōtaka Hanga Hou i ngā Kura o Ōtautahi Christchurch Schools Rebuild Programme Operating Funding
Capital Funding
Five-year operating total: 41.300 million Ten-year capital total: 157.350 million |
This initiative provides funding for the Christchurch Schools' Rebuild Programme following the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes. There are 33 school projects that will be supported by this additional capital investment. |
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Te Noho Tahi o Ngā Kāreti Tamatāne, Tamawāhine hoki o Te Wairau me te whakanoho i Te Kura Waenga o Bohally Operating Funding
Capital Funding
Five-year operating total: 6.409 million Ten-year capital total: 36.620 million |
This initiative provides funding to progress the design of the co-location of Marlborough Girls’ and Boys’ Colleges and the rebuild and relocation of Bohally Intermediate School in Marlborough. |
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Te Whakatika i te Utu Tōraro i ngā tau o ngā Utu Hararei ki ngā Kairīwhi Wā Roa Operating Funding
Five-year operating total: 67.193 million |
This initiative will remediate an estimated 21,969 long-term relievers in state and state-integrated schools and kura for historic underpayments of their contractual holiday pay. This funding will cover the estimated cost for historical remediation and one year of additional cost to pay long-term relievers correctly. |
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Te Whakahāngai Utu ki ngā Ratonga Kura Kōhungahuna me tētahi Pūtea Whakatoitū i a Te Whānau Tupu Ngātahi o Aotearoa Operating Funding
Five-year operating total: 260.041 million |
This initiative provides funding for an increase of 5.3 percent to a mix of full and partial early learning subsidy rates. This will aid funded early learning services to manage the increasing costs of provision and maintain quality and affordable early learning for children, parents, and whānau. This initiative will also provide a one-off grant to support the sustainability of Playcentre Aotearoa. |
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Te Whakahāngai Utu mō ngā Pūtea Whakahaere Kura Operating Funding
Five-year operating total: 233.927 million |
This initiative provides for an increase of 3.5 percent in funding for schools to employ staff and meet inflationary pressures to purchase supplies, utilities and other essentials required to operate. This initiative also includes additional funding to extend the donations scheme to newly eligible schools in 2024. |
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Ngā Kōrero Tuku Iho ā-Rohe – Te Whakawhānui Hōtaka Operating Funding
Capital Funding $increase/($decrease)
Five-year operating total: 9.900 million Ten-year capital total: 0.017 million |
This initiative provides funding to expand the Critical Local Histories programme, which involves working with local iwi and hapū to support the development of culturally relevant history curricular. High levels of interest from iwi and schools in this programme have led to a need for expansion and additional funding. This funding will allow the Crown to work with iwi over the next five years. |
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Te Whakawhānui i Ngā Whakakitenga Marautanga me te Whanaketanga Operating Funding
Capital Funding
Five-year operating total: 11.523 million Ten-year capital total: 1.116 million |
This initiative provides funding to address cost pressures for the Curriculum Insights and Progress Study (previously the National Monitoring Study for Student Achievement). The Curriculum Insights and Progress Study is a uniquely New Zealand tool for understanding how learners progress and achieve in relation to the NZ Curriculum. Updates can be made to studies in line with the refreshed NZ Curriculum and provide insights to Ministry of Education and teachers to better inform teaching practices |
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Ngā Ratonga Whakahaumaru, Whakahaere Hangarau – Pēhanga Utu Operating Funding
Capital Funding
Five-year operating total: 31.000 million Ten-year capital total: 8.100 million |
This initiative provides funding to maintain cybersecurity and managed digital services to kura and schools to better protect the education sector against rapidly escalating cyber-attacks and privacy breaches. This delivers the next phase of the Cybersecurity and Managed IT Services initiative that was funded through Budget 2022. |
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Ngā Paerewa Whai Wāhi Whakaōrite Utu Kura Kōhungahunga – Pēhanga Utu Operating Funding
Five-year operating total: 46.538 million |
This initiative addresses a critical cost pressure for extending pay parity in early learning. More services than anticipated have opted into the pay parity scheme and this initiative will ensure sufficient funding is available to support these services to deliver pay parity to early learning teachers |
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Te Rārangi Utu Kaimahi ā-Mātauranga – Pēhanga Utu Operating Funding
Five-year operating total: 15.220 million |
This initiative provides funding to support Education Payroll Limited to manage increased costs associated with delivery of accurate, timely and secure fortnightly payroll to an average of 96,000 employees. |
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Te Āheinga ki ngā Mahi Matihiko Ōrite – Te Whakaroa i te Hōtaka ki te Pipiri 2024 Operating Funding
Five-year operating total: 15.480 million |
This initiative is a continuation of free home internet access for up to 18,000 student households, initially started as part of the Government’s COVID-19 distance learning programme. This initiative also extends access to new student whānau who have become eligible since the programme began. |
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Te Hōtaka Whakahou i te Kāhui Kura ki Hāwera Operating Funding
Capital Funding
Five-year operating total: 2.625 million Ten-year capital total: 10.000 million |
This initiative provides funding for the construction of temporary teaching spaces and the design of a combined high school and intermediate school in Hāwera. |
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He Tohutohu Motuhake mō ngā Kaupapa Tōmua a te Kāwanatanga – Te Whakahoki Pūtea Operating Funding
Five-year operating total: (2.000) million |
This initiative will discontinue the appropriation of independent advice on government priority areas. This appropriation was limited to the provision, independently of the Ministry of Education, of advice (including second opinion advice and contributions to policy advice led by other agencies, advice on operational matters and expert review service advice) to support decision-making by Ministers on government priority areas. |
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Te Tuku Haumi mō te Mātauranga Māori – Te Whakakaha Rangapūtanga Operating Funding
Five-year operating total: 39.891 million |
This initiative funds programmes designed to improve educational outcomes for ākonga Māori and their whānau. The Ministry of Education will work with partners to improve outcomes around attendance, ending streaming, and nurturing language, culture, and identity through kapahaka. Māori Education Peak Bodies will be supported to lead and partner with the Ministry on programmes with aligned aspirations for tamariki and rangatahi. There is also increased funding for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programmes for ākonga Māori. |
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Kāhui Ako – Pēhanga Utu Operating Funding
Five-year operating total: 6.890 million |
This initiative will enable Kāhui Ako | Communities of Learning (education providers that collaborate to improve the achievement of their children and young people) to continue being funded at their current level until the end of the 2023 calendar year. |
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Ka Ora, Ka Ako – te Haere Tonu Operating Funding
Capital Funding
Five-year operating total: 323.356 million Ten-year capital total: 1.654 million |
This initiative will enable the Ka Ora, Ka Ako programme to continue at the current level until the end of the 2024 calendar year. This initiative will provide the 25 percent of ākonga (~220,000 learners) experiencing the greatest socioeconomic barriers to education with access to a nutritious lunch, on every school day. This initiative contributes to reducing food insecurity and financial hardship for families and whānau. The programme supports child development, health, and wellbeing and removes barriers to participation in education. |
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Te Whakahoki Utu Hoko Whenua mō ngā Kura Hou – Pēhanga Utu Operating Funding
Capital Funding
Five-year operating total: 17.500 million Ten-year capital total: 100.000 million |
This initiative provides a one-off capital injection to reimburse land acquisitions and associated site work costs. The purchase of land for new schools is fundamental to delivering the National Education Growth Plan and expanding the School Property Portfolio to meet demand across New Zealand. |
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Te Tautoko Ako i ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori me ngā Akoranga Rūmaki Reo Operating Funding
Capital Funding
Five-year operating total: 25.246 million Ten-year capital total: 15.171 million |
This initiative provides funding for specialised Learning Support Coordination and facilities in schools and kura providing Kaupapa Māori and Māori medium education. It provides resourcing for Māori-led design and delivery of solutions to strengthen the capacity and capability of these schools and kura to plan and coordinate responses to the learning support needs of ākonga in partnership with whānau. |
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Ngā Hanga Tautoko Ako ki ngā Whare Kura Operating Funding
Capital Funding
Five-year operating total: 27.000 million Ten-year capital total: 120.000 million |
This initiative will provide funding for the purchase and installation of modifications in schools to be able to provide access for all, including automatic doors, lifts, fencing, hoists, and bathroom modifications over a period of two years. This is required to meet the increased volume in demand for such modifications (increase of 190 percent from 2016 to 2021). |
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Ngā Kerēme Whakaōrite Utu mā ngā Mātanga Whare Pukapuka, Ngā Kaiāwhina Whare Pukapuka me ngā Kaihangarau Pūtaiao – Whakatinanatanga Operating Funding
Five-year operating total: 2.531 million |
This initiative supports the implementation of the Librarians, Library Assistants, and Science Technicians Pay Equity Claims. Funding will resource personnel to work with schools and kura to ensure that they receive accurate funding, and that the sector is supported to understand the changes to employment settings. |
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Te Pokapū Whakaako Taurewa ki Māngere – Pēhanga Utu Operating Funding
Five-year operating total: 1.396 million |
This initiative provides additional funding to deliver education to refugees at Pokapū Whakamātau Rerenga, the Māngere Refugee Resettlement Centre (the Centre). This will allow the Centre to continue delivering vital and effective education services to high needs students, ensure that refugees are well oriented to the New Zealand education system, and assist refugee and migrant students to achieve National Certificate of Educational Achievement Level 2 at similar rates to domestic ākonga. |
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Ngā Rawahanga Ākoranga Rūmaki Reo Māori – Te Whakawhānui Hōtaka Operating Funding
Capital Funding
Five-year operating total: 21.880 million Ten-year capital total: 112.500 million |
This initiative funds remediation projects, site acquisitions, and provision of roll growth classrooms to kura delivering Māori Medium Education (MME). Maintenance funding is also provided to Puna Reo and Kōhanga Reo early childhood centres. This investment is needed to meet the Government objective of 30 percent of ākonga Māori learning in Kaupapa Māori Education and Māori Medium Education environments by 2040. |
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Te Mahere Whakatipu Mātauranga ā-Motu Operating Funding
Capital Funding
Five-year operating total: 55.390 million Ten-year capital total: 400.000 million |
This initiative will support the continued expansion of the School Property Portfolio by delivering roll growth classrooms and new schools in accordance with the National Education Growth Plan. The funding will enable delivery of approximately 200 roll growth teaching spaces, 100 short term roll growth classrooms and four new schools. This will add approximately 6,600 student places to the School Network. |
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Te Kapamahi Motuhake a Te Mana Tohu Mātauranga o Aotearoa – Pēhanga Utu Kaimahi Operating Funding
Five-year operating total: 12.000 million |
This initiative provides funding to maintain pay rates for 9,500 contracted Specialist Workforce employees of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority. The workforce is necessary for the integrity and operation of the National Certificate of Educational Achievement and Scholarship secondary school assessment process |
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Ngā Iti Kahurangi – Te Whakawhānui Hōtaka Operating Funding
Capital Funding
Five-year operating total:13.125 million Ten-year capital total: 50.000 million |
This initiative provides funding to extend the Ngā Iti Kahurangi programme to 175 more schools, which delivers property improvements to small, isolated schools in line with the Ministry of Education’s Quality Learning Environment standards. The programme upgrades school energy efficient LED lightbulbs, insulation, acoustic panels, residual current devices, and carpet tiles. |
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Ngā Rawawhare ā-Kura: Te Whakahou i ngā Kohinga Whare Pukapuka ā-Kura Operating Funding
Five-year operating total 0.782 million |
This initiative provides for the replacement of school library collections, related resources (excluding textbooks and devices) and shelving lost due to the North Island Weather Events and which cannot be replaced by other funding. |
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Ngā Rawawhare ā-Kura: He Urupare Tangetange Operating Funding
Capital Funding
Five-year operating total 5.128 million Ten-year capital total 25.885 million |
This initiative provides for the immediate and high need property works to enable schools to open and/or operate safely following the North Island Weather Events. This work includes repairs to roofs, plumbing infrastructure, carpentry, tree removal, and emergency cleaning. This work will be delivered using existing Ministry of Education staff and systems. |
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Ngā Rawawhare ā-Kura: Te Whakatika me te Hanga Hou hei muri i te Āwhā i pā ki Te Ika a Māui Operating Funding
Capital Funding
Five-year operating total 9.799 million Ten-year capital total 75.675 million |
This initiative, building on funding provided for immediate repairs, enables further work to return schools severely affected by the North Island Weather Events to their pre-weather-event state, including, where necessary, redevelopment or relocation of schools on extensively damaged sites. This work will be delivered using existing Ministry of Education staff and systems. |
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Ngā Rawawhare ā-Kura: Ko Ngā Kaimahi Take Motuhake me te Tuku Pūtea – He Whakanui i te Pūtea o Tēnei Wā Operating Funding
Five-year operating total 0.700 million |
This initiative provides immediate assistance to support staff in schools and kura impacted by the North Island Weather Events by increasing the Special Reasons Staffing funding. This funding can be used to employ relief staff, provide teaching/principal release time, support ākonga with engagement and wellbeing or employ additional teachers for those schools that have experienced increased enrolment due to enrolling ākonga from cyclone-affected areas. |
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Ngā Kura Kōhungahunga Iwi Moana – Pēhanga Utu Operating Funding
Five-year operating total: 5.306 million |
This initiative provides for the continuation of time-limited funding to strengthen and support Pacific early learning services in line with the Action Plan for Pacific Education and the Early Learning Action Plan. The funding will deliver targeted professional learning and development, guidance, and support (provided through specialist advisors) to enhance governance and management and meet learning support needs. |
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Te Whakaōrite Utu ki ngā Kaiako i ngā Ratonga Ako me te Tiaki Operating Funding
Capital Funding
Five-year operating total: 339.260 million Ten-year capital total: 4.571 million |
This initiative is the third tranche of funding to deliver pay parity for certificated teachers in education and care services. It provides funding to close the pay gap between certificated teachers in education and care services and their counterparts in kindergartens. This initiative also provides funding for an allowance for teachers who work in Māori or Pacific based immersion services. |
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Te Whakahāngai Utu ki Te Rāngai Kāwanatanga - he Pēhanga Utu Kaimahi ki roto i te Tāhua Mātauranga Operating Funding
Five-year operating total 101.613 million |
This initiative provides funding for remuneration cost pressures to give effect to the Public Sector Pay Adjustment (PSPA) for the Ministry of Education and the New Zealand Qualifications Authority. |
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He Akoranga Whai Kounga me te Marautanga – Te Tautoko i ngā Mahi Whakawhanake Ngaiotanga Operating Funding
Five-year operating total: 26.000 million |
This initiative will help ensure equitable and resilient curriculum support and professional development provision for schools, kura and kaiako to respond to high sector demand. It includes specific programmes to help teachers support Māori and Pacific learners and will provide equitable opportunities across English and Māori mediums, sectors, and regions. |
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Te Matapae Hou i te Mātauranga Kura Kōhungahunga Operating Funding
Five-year operating total: (60.000) million |
This initiative identifies a saving of $15 million per year to reflect updated forecasts for the take-up of early childhood education. |
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Mātauranga Taurewa, Manene i ngā Kura – Pēhanga Utu Operating Funding
Five-year operating total: 6.864 million |
This initiative provides funding to continue delivering specialist supports for refugee and migrant students in schools, helping them to achieve the National Certificate of Educational Achievement Level 2 at similar rates to domestic students. Additional student arrivals from Ukraine and Afghanistan (outside of the refugee quota) and changes to the migrant levies’ settings due to COVID-19 have affected traditional funding sources and led to cost increases. |
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Te Tuku Haumi ki te Tōpūtanga Rawawhare ā-Kura – Pēhanga Utu Operating Funding
Five-year operating total: 90.080 million |
This initiative will provide funding for reinvestment in the School Property Portfolio. This funding is critical to ensure proper maintenance of the 2,100 schools across New Zealand. This funding is provided to schools to deliver Ministry of Education-led national maintenance programmes. |
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Te Kete Tīmata Kura – Te Whakamutu Hōtaka Operating Funding
Five-year operating total: (8.626) million |
This initiative discontinues the School Entry Kete programme. The School Entry Kete programme funded a data eco-system which would support a joined-up approach to data about student needs, progress, and learning support needs throughout their schooling. The impact of COVID-19 saw contractors unable to meet deliverables on initial timeframes. There is an opportunity to cease further work on the School Entry Kete. The teaching, learning and early identification of needs outcomes supported by the School Entry Kete can still be realised through the wider Curriculum and Assessment work programme. |
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Te Whakapiki Utu ki ngā Kaitaraiwa Waka Kura Operating Funding
Five-year operating total 26.360 million |
This initiative restores wage relativity between school bus drivers and public transport drivers by providing $6.590 million per annum to school bus operators for the purposes of providing a wage increase in line with the public transport counterparts. |
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Te Hōtaka Whakatika Rārangi Utu Kaimahi ā-Kura – Pēhanga Utu Operating Funding
Five-year operating total: 39.531 million |
This initiative provides additional funding for the Schools Payroll Remediation programme, which identifies and corrects errors in payroll data and processes. The main objective of the programme is ensuring that school sector employees receive their correct Holidays Act entitlements. This involves determining compliance in the education sector, establishing amounts owed (if any), and remediating for any non-compliance. |
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Ngā Ratonga Tautoko – Te Aro ki te Ako Hipa Operating Funding
Five-year operating total 43.627 million |
This initiative provides funding for a suite of tutoring and support services for students in years 7 and above in schools and kura to address ‘lost learning’ as a result of COVID-19 ($20 million) and initiatives to support more teachers in the education workforce ($23 million). This targeted funding is largely limited to the 2022/23 financial year, with the exception of some scholarships. This initiative was funded as a pre-commitment against the Budget 2023 operating allowance. |
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Te Whakaranea Kaiako – Te Whakaroa i te Pūtea Wā-Here Operating Funding
Five-year operating total 21.072 million |
This initiative extends time-limited funding for several critical teacher supply initiatives that boost Initial Teacher Education enrolment, incentivise overseas teachers to move to New Zealand, assist former teachers to return to the profession, and help match graduates and returning teachers to long-term positions. Note: $2.568 million is provided by Vote Social Development for TeachNZ scholarships. The total cost of the initiative is $23.640 million |
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