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Whether you are a parent or early childhood provider please let us know what your centre is doing. We want to form a clear picture of what is going on around the country so that we can build up accurate information about how many children are able to benefit from the scheme and just how many are missing out. Send us a message at 20hoursfree.please@gmail.com

20 Hours Free. Please

What to do if you are an Early Childhood Centre or Home-based provider to help your 3 and 4 year olds to get their 20 free hours

You could print out the petition ( see in the Petition section) along with this letter to parents below. Do this by highlighting the letter and then select copy and paste it into a word document.

If this all sounds too complicated we are more than happy to email to you a printer friendly format of both the letter to parents and the petition - simply send an email to 20freehours.please@gmail.com with flyer for parents and petition in the subject box


Dear Parent or Caregiver,

We are a group of motivated parents who have started a petition regarding the Government’s 20 Hours Free policy. We have called our group “20 Hours Free. Please” and our aim is to raise awareness amongst other parents about what the Government promised for three and four year olds and why many children, like ours, are likely to miss out when the scheme becomes operational from 1 July 2007.

Our petition requests that sufficient funding is allocated to make this work for families and centres. We understand that many ECE providers would like to offer this scheme but are unable to due to insufficient funding and the inability to charge top-ups to parents (and that this concern applies to both private and not-for-profit centres).

We recognise the great importance of the opportunity presented by this scheme for Kiwi families and why it is crucial that we don’t let this chance pass us by at this time. Not only does the scheme have the potential to encourage higher participation in ECE, but it also gives families the choice as to whether to work more or less hours.

Help us ensure that as many families as possible are able to benefit from the 20 hours free policy and that it is not just a lottery for the lucky few. Please sign our petition and better still visit us at http://20hoursfree.blogspot.com and learn more about this issue. You can also print off more copies of our petition and help us by circulating them in your community.

Signed petitions should be returned by 31 May to:

20 Hours Free. Please
Private Bag MBEMI07
Auckland 1142

Thank you for your time.

20 Hours Free. Please
20hoursfree.please@gmail.com