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Dear Andrew

 

Thank you for your email in which you submitted an Official Information
Act request as follows:

 

“On 6 June you released a statement about a review of regulations applying
to eraly childhood centres.

 

It included the following quote from yourself:

“We have heard reports from centres around the country where teachers and
carers are spending their time dealing with regulators and writing reports
and plans on absurd things like the risk of apples falling from a tree in
the playground, the first aid certificate being hung on the right-hand
side of the doorframe instead of above it, or a train driver honking the
train horn at the children as the train drives past every morning to the
delight of the children but the chagrin of noise pollution police. I wish
these examples were made up, but they are real."

 

Please provide copies of all reports you received giving these examples,
including all  assessments and/or comments on these examples by either
staff at your office or in the Ministry of Regulation.”

 

We received your request on Monday 10 June 2024. We will endeavour to
respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no later than
Tuesday 9 July 2024, being 20 working days after the day your request was
received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will
notify you of an extension of that timeframe.

 

Kind regards, Annette

 

Annette Gratkowski | Private Secretary Executive
Support

 

 

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