Our goal:

‘Every child has access to a quality early childhood education’. ECE-EXPRESS is part of the Waitakere Wellbeing Collaboration Project, which is run by the Waitakere City Council and provides direction and facilitatiion to a wide range of collaborative initiatives and processes supporting children and families in the community. Representatives from the early childhood education sector oversee our work.

What we do:

Advice, information and support to users and providers: For all Waitakere early childhood education services  and users including: day care groups, playgroups, preschools, kindergartens, Playcentres, playgroups, parent and toddler groups and other under-five education and language groups

Advocacy and policy representation for our unique West Auckland community: By creating Collaborative working partnerships to implement monitoring planning systems on services and community developments for young early education children at local council community level

Promote early childhood learning and development: Encouraging parents and the community to be involved in the parenting role and promoting social inclusion and multi-culturalism by treasuring the uniqueness of each child.

Integrating early years child education services: Providing and implementing strategy to support the level of qualifications held by the Waitakere ECE workforce in voluntary and professional sectors. We provide training and development opportunities to improve quality via various professional ECE development forums and workshops. We recognise and support the voluntary sector of early childcare services at a time of increased pressure for all parents and communities.

Encouraging good practice, providing resources and PR tools Such as early childhood collaborative events including: Toddler Day Out and The Big Breakfast Bash. Providing contacts, newsletters, sharing resources, using the website as a central accessible database and search facility.