Love and Learn Care and Education
About Love and Learn Care and Education
About Education & Care Service
Education & Care Services are mainstream early learning centres that offer full-day or part-day care with a structured curriculum, qualified teachers, and a focus on learning through play. They cater to families needing flexible childcare options and wanting a balanced approach that supports social, physical, and early academic development in a diverse environment.
What Is 20 Hours ECE funding?
20 Hours ECE is a government-funded initiative that helps reduce the cost of early childhood education for families with tamariki aged 3–5. Eligible children can receive up to 20 hours of funded care and education each week at participating services. Centres can set their own enrolment patterns and may ask for optional charges, but the funded hours themselves should be free of compulsory fees. If you are unsure how this works at Love and Learn Care and Education, it is best to ask the centre directly how they apply 20 Hours ECE.
Community Profile
Roll & age distribution
Love and Learn Care and Education currently has a roll of 58 children tamariki , with most children enrolled in the 0–5 years age band.
Ethnicity profile
Māori tamariki are the largest group (72% of the roll), alongside european, pacific children.
Roll and demographic figures are based on data supplied by the Ministry of Education and were last updated on 01/07/2024.
Parent Reviews
“amazing team at Love & Learn. Our son has truly thrived in this caring, structured, and supportive environment. always clean, tidy, and spacious—perfect for tamariki to explore and grow. The teachers are professional, kind, and incredibly understanding, especially with neurodivergent children.”
“Lovely place, lovely teachers, the staff offer great support in all areas for my children (4y, 3y, 2y) and our family. We have attended mums n bubs groups, parenting support and information seminars, ways to play for autism, they have had community nurse days where we are welcome to meet with a nurse, whom has guided us towards speech language therapy and more.”
“Great friendly staff who put inaction with child first. Very impressed that during lockdown, while obeying the rules, they have delivered each child a little pack of activities and a new book. Very impressed.”
“Best day care ever my daughter loved her years there and misses it everyday”
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