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Dear Katrina

The Hon Chris Hipkins, Minister of Education, has asked me to acknowledge your request of 20 July 2018, for information under the Official Information Act 1982, as follows:

As you know legislation says you donot have to enrol a child into school until aged 6.
Can you please release to me the advice you have received, and from whom, upon which you relied, to formulate your departments decisions to continue the practise of staff to cut funding an ESW (Education support workers) for a child in ECE after they turn 5years and remain in ECE to 6years?

2. Could you also please release to me the advice you receive on the rationale of the Ministry of education practise to prioritise ESW funding based on age, (eg; current MOE practise is priority funding is for a 3year old child) and articulate how that advice takes into account a child may not be adequately diagnosed until optimal age of 4 to 7 years?

3. Could you please release to me the advice you receive in education to what degree is a prioritised child’s needs based on identified diagnosed persistent disability by age, 0-3, 3-5 and 5-6 and provide the statistics for this range including ethnicity, region and type of diagnosed disability?

Your request is being considered under the Official Information Act 1982.

Yours sincerely,

Olivia Funaki | Private Secretary - Administration (Education) | Office of Hon Chris Hipkins
Minister of Education
Parliament Buildings, Private Bag 18041, Wellington 6160, New Zealand
T: 04 817 8879 | M: 027 626 3198 | F: 04 817 6529

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Dear Katrina

Thank you for your email of 20 July 2018 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act):

“As you know legislation says you do not have to enrol a child into school until aged 6.

1.Can you please release to me the advice you have received, and from whom, upon which you relied, to formulate your departments decisions to continue the practise of staff to cut funding an ESW (Education support workers) for a child in ECE after they turn 5years and remain in ECE to 6years?

2.Could you also please release to me the advice you receive on the rationale of the Ministry of education practise to prioritise ESW funding based on age, (eg; current MOE practise is priority funding is for a 3year old child) and articulate how that advice takes into account a child may not be adequately diagnosed until optimal age of 4 to 7 years?

3.Could you please release to me the advice you receive in education to what degree is a prioritised child’s needs based on identified diagnosed persistent disability by age, 0-3, 3-5 and 5-6 and provide the statistics for this range including ethnicity, region and type of diagnosed disability?

Your request is being considered under the Official Information Act 1982. However, the consultations necessary to make a decision on your request are such that a proper response cannot reasonably be made within the original time limit.

For this reason I am writing to extend the time limit for responding to your request until 3 September 2018, in accordance with section 15A(1)(b) of the Act. We will try to respond sooner than this date if possible.

You have the right to ask an Ombudsman to review this decision. You can do this by writing to [email address] or Office of the Ombudsman, PO Box 10152, Wellington 6143.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries regarding this email.

Yours sincerely,

Olivia Funaki | Private Secretary - Administration (Education) | Office of Hon Chris Hipkins
Minister of Education
Parliament Buildings, Private Bag 18041, Wellington 6160, New Zealand
T: 04 817 8879 | M: 027 626 3198 | F: 04 817 6529

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Dear Katrina

Please find attached Response to your OIA request.

Yours sincerely,

Olivia Funaki | Private Secretary - Administration (Education) | Office of Hon Chris Hipkins
Minister of Education
Parliament Buildings, Private Bag 18041, Wellington 6160, New Zealand
T: 04 817 8879 | M: 027 626 3198 | F: 04 817 6529

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