https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/122508340/concern-abou...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/122508340/concern-about-redundancies-closures-as-some-early-childhood-centres-struggle-to-attract-parents-back

Main points:

*Private and community early childhood centres are struggling to get children back to class in alert levels 2 and 3, and sector leaders are warning of redundancies and closures.

*ECE have "70 per cent attendance rate needed to break even."

*Chrysalis Group have "offered parents four months’ free attendance to help people get back on their feet."

*Chrysalis Group are "sitting at about 10 per cent attendance now that Auckland had returned to alert level 3."

* Kindergarten and Play Centres are less affected, and may have increased their share as parents "may have chosen to take their children out of private centres and enrol at a kindergarten."