SO YOU KN OW
9
SO YOU KNOW welcome The following early childhood centres joined the Early Childhood Council recently:
Food Act Briefing Meeting The Food Act 2014 and associated regulations will impact on all licensed childcare centres.
•
Bell Street Early Learning Centres, Featherston & Martinborough
•
Hillmorton & Halswell Nests, Christchurch
The greatest impact will be on centres that cook and prepare food for children.
•
Te Awamutu Montessori Preschool, Te Awamutu
The Early Childhood Centre has been working closely with the
•
The Ashburton Baptist Church community Trust, Ashburton
•
Learning Curves Montessori Ltd, Christchurch
Ministry of Primary Industries to develop guidance for ECE centres ahead of these changes taking affect.
•
Little Hands Childcare and Early Learning Centre, Auckland
•
The Redwood Kindergarten and Daycare, Havelock North
•
Airdmhor Montessori, Christchurch
•
St Margaret's Preschool, Christchurch
•
Curious Cubs Early Learning Centre, Hamilton
•
Nurture Early Learning, Auckland
•
Butterfly Preschool, New Plymouth
•
Family Ties Educare, Dunedin
•
Back @ Basics ECE, Maungatapere
•
Bright Minds Childcare, Auckland
•
East Tamaki Childcare Centre, Auckland
•
Eden Christian Kindergarten, Fielding
•
Impressions Childcare Centre, Pirongia
•
Morrinsville Kids Ltd, Morrinsville
•
Ohaewai Community Preschool and ELC, Kaikohe
•
Orakei Montessori Preschool, Auckland
•
Rosebank Early Childhood Centre, Auckland
•
Rudolf Steiner School Hastings Trust (Taikura Kindergarten, Hastings; Taradale Rudolf Steiner Kindergarten, Taradale, Kereru Kindergarten, Hastings)
Are you up-to-date with the impact the Food Act will have on your centre? If not, register now for one of the ECC’s two-hour briefing sessions to learn more about this important change; what you need to do to comply, and by when. Facilitator: ECC CEO Peter Reynolds; Cost: $70 + gst; Duration: 2 hours To register for this briefing or find out more information on this and other workshops for both centre managers and teachers go to: www.ecc.org.nz (look under Calendar of Events)
Current market for the sale of Childcare Centres Demand to purchase childcare centres remains high, and buyers have been keen to pay top prices for good businesses.
Pra Jain
Buyers are willing to pay premium prices at the moment for the following reasons:
01. Increased home values mean more money is available to invest and buy a business. Being experts in the industry we are acutely aware of patterns in the market place, and money is currently pouring into business purchases; 02. Figures from Statistics New Zealand show that in the last 12 months long term arrivals exceeded departures by 67,391, which is the highest inward migration ever recorded. This means that there are more business buyers around than ever before; 03. We have a large pool of ECE qualified childcare teachers keen and waiting to purchase and run their own childcare centres; and 04. Existing childcare centre owners are increasingly eager to purchase another centre. Information supplied by Pra Jain, Business Broker. Contact Pra for more information: M: 027 279 4652; E: praj@linkbusiness.co.nz W: www.linkbusiness.co.nz/brokers/Pra-Jain
September 2016