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  "site": {
    "name": "Daycare Near Me",
    "url": "https://daycarenearme.co.nz",
    "mission": "Independent directory of every licensed NZ early childhood education service, with source-linked data and zero marketing fluff.",
    "contact": "https://daycarenearme.co.nz/contact"
  },
  "refreshed_at": "2026-05-27T16:21:17.933Z",
  "counts": {
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    "centres": 4375,
    "ero_reports": 10646,
    "financials": 545,
    "fees": 0,
    "tags": 0,
    "suburb_links": 4336,
    "suburbs": 1258
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "moe_ece_directory",
      "name": "Ministry of Education ECE Directory",
      "primary_url": "https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/directories/early-childhood-services",
      "data_url": "https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/__data/assets/text_file/0004/219874/ece-apiv3.json",
      "licence": "CC-BY 4.0",
      "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
      "refresh_cadence": "Nightly upstream; re-pulled on every Netlify deploy.",
      "attribution": "Source: Ministry of Education ECE Directory (CC-BY 4.0 via data.govt.nz)",
      "fields_used": [
        "name",
        "moe_number",
        "service_type",
        "address",
        "suburb",
        "territorial_authority",
        "regional_council",
        "lat",
        "lng",
        "phone",
        "email",
        "authority",
        "20_hrs_ece_flag",
        "equity_index",
        "takiwā",
        "roll",
        "age_breakdown",
        "ethnicity"
      ],
      "coverage": "4,375 licensed services (100%)"
    },
    {
      "id": "ero",
      "name": "Education Review Office",
      "primary_url": "https://www.ero.govt.nz/",
      "licence": "Crown copyright (reuse permitted with attribution)",
      "refresh_cadence": "BLOCKED — Cloudflare Turnstile on ero.govt.nz prevents automated access. OIA + FlareSolverr paths in progress.",
      "attribution": "Source: Education Review Office, New Zealand (Crown copyright)",
      "coverage": "0 reports loaded — per-centre source URL surfaced as outbound link only"
    },
    {
      "id": "charities_services",
      "name": "Charities Services (Te Rātā Atawhai, DIA)",
      "primary_url": "https://www.charities.govt.nz/",
      "data_url": "http://www.odata.charities.govt.nz/",
      "licence": "CC-BY 4.0",
      "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
      "refresh_cadence": "Annual filings (6 months after balance date). Re-ingested with each refresh cycle.",
      "attribution": "Source: Charities Services, Department of Internal Affairs (CC-BY 4.0)",
      "fields_used": [
        "revenue",
        "govt_revenue",
        "expenses",
        "paid_employees",
        "year_ended"
      ],
      "coverage": "489 single-centre + 8 umbrella (~923 centres covered)"
    },
    {
      "id": "safesuburbs_crimestats",
      "name": "NZ Police Recorded Crime + Stats NZ Census 2023 (via SafeSuburbs/crimestats)",
      "primary_url": "https://safesuburbs.co.nz/",
      "data_url": "https://nz-crime-8kpe.onrender.com/api/suburbs/{suburb_id}",
      "licence": "CC-BY 4.0",
      "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
      "refresh_cadence": "Quarterly upstream police data; 5-yearly census.",
      "attribution": "Source: NZ Police RCVD + Stats NZ 2023 Census (CC-BY 4.0)",
      "coverage": "4,286+ centre↔suburb links (98%+)"
    },
    {
      "id": "ird_msd_moe_funding",
      "name": "IRD FamilyBoost / MSD Childcare Subsidy / 20 Hours ECE",
      "urls": [
        "https://www.ird.govt.nz/familyboost",
        "https://www.workandincome.govt.nz/products/a-z-benefits/childcare-subsidy.html",
        "https://parents.education.govt.nz/early-learning/early-learning-services/20-hours-ece/"
      ],
      "licence": "Crown copyright (information only — policy parameters cited, not republished)",
      "refresh_cadence": "Annually with NZ Budget cycle (May)."
    },
    {
      "id": "openstreetmap_carto",
      "name": "OpenStreetMap + CARTO Positron + Nominatim",
      "urls": [
        "https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright",
        "https://carto.com/attribution/"
      ],
      "licence": "OpenStreetMap data: ODbL · CARTO tiles: CC-BY 3.0",
      "attribution": "Map tiles © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO. Geocoding via Nominatim."
    }
  ],
  "enrichments": [
    "Suburb ↔ centre joins via 3-tier matcher (98% coverage)",
    "Nearby-centre computation (haversine 10km cap)",
    "Umbrella-charity consolidations (provider-level financials for 8 umbrella orgs)",
    "Email-domain → operator linkage (611 chain links derived)",
    "Reverse-geocode lat/lng → suburb (1,622 of 1,646 blank-suburb centres filled, 98.5%)",
    "Modelled cost benchmarks (OECE 2026 funding rates × 25hr/week assumption)"
  ],
  "ranking_methodology": {
    "url": "https://daycarenearme.co.nz/methodology",
    "formula": "score = (20_hours_ece ? 1000 : 0) + current_roll + (provider_id ? 200 : 0) + (service_type === 'kindergarten' && age_band === '3-5' ? 500 : 0)",
    "ero_pending": true
  },
  "endpoints": {
    "bulk_centres": "https://daycarenearme.co.nz/api/centres.json",
    "bulk_providers": "https://daycarenearme.co.nz/api/providers.json",
    "bulk_suburbs": "https://daycarenearme.co.nz/api/suburbs.json",
    "per_centre_facts": "https://daycarenearme.co.nz/api/centre/{slug}/facts.json",
    "per_centre_markdown": "https://daycarenearme.co.nz/api/centre/{slug}/markdown.md",
    "json_schema": "https://daycarenearme.co.nz/api/schema.json",
    "llms_full": "https://daycarenearme.co.nz/llms-full.txt",
    "sitemap": "https://daycarenearme.co.nz/sitemap-index.xml",
    "mcp": "https://daycarenearme.co.nz/mcp"
  }
}