BestStart South Road 1
Education & Care
289 South Road, Hāwera Central · South Taranaki District
ERO assessed BestStart South Road 1 as Not well placed in September 2017. The service demonstrated positive relationships and wellbeing practices, plus health and safety compliance. However, our analysis of the ERO report identified areas for development: whānau partnership and parent engagement, bicultural practice and te reo Māori use, and leadership and governance processes require strengthening.
AI-generated summary of this centre's ERO review data — verify against the ERO report below. How summaries are generated.
Roll breakdown
By age
By ethnicity
Note: a child may be counted under multiple ethnicities (total may exceed roll).
Operator
BestStart Educare Cultural & rohe
ERO operator-wide review
Governing Organisation Evaluation · 2025-09-11 · covers the wider operator group
ERO's most recent review for this centre is an operator-wide review — ERO has chosen to review the parent group rather than this centre individually. The findings apply across all centres in the group.
Source: Education Review Office operator-wide review dated 2025-09-11, licensed CC-BY 4.0.
Earlier individual centre review
ERO review · 2017-09-25· superseded by operator-wide review above
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"Children benefit from positive relationships. Significant improvements have been made to the centre environment, indoors and out."
Positive relationships and improved environments; transitions well-managed
"A next step is to strengthen relationships with whānau Māori and explore ways to draw on their cultural expertise to enhance learning outcomes for their tamariki."
Parent engagement developing; whānau Māori partnership needs strengthening
"A next step is for teachers to strengthen their use of meaningful te reo Māori in everyday conversations with children, and within documentation."
Te ao Māori visible but te reo Māori use inconsistent; cultural awareness emerging
"All early childhood services are required to promote children's health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements."
Compliance confirmed; ratios better than minimum requirements
"Leaders agree that they should now make the shift to internal evaluation of practice. The evaluative aspect should be strengthened through: narrowing the scope of evaluations linking data directly to measurable indicators of best practice analysis of evidence to inform changes and make evaluative judgements."
Self-review present; internal evaluation and strategic direction need development
Source: Education Review Office review of BestStart South Road 1 dated 2017-09-25, licensed CC-BY 4.0. The 4-point overall judgement is ERO's; the 6 dimension grades are our analysis of ERO's prose (see methodology). · Centre has 2 individual reviews on file — showing most recent.
Composite score
How this is computedOne or more dimensions missing from ERO data
Where BestStart South Road 1 hasn't been graded on a dimension, the composite uses the national average for that dimension as a placeholder. Each affected axis below is flagged est. When a new ERO review lands, the placeholder is replaced and the score may shift.
The composite is a weighted average of six ERO dimensions, each scored 0–100 (A=90, B=70, C=50, D=25). The "(p47)" style suffix shows where the centre sits within its EQI band (peer percentile, when ≥10 comparable centres in band). See methodology for the formula + limits.
Location
289 South Road, Hāwera Central. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO · Brand-teal pin = this centre, 800m radius shown
Frequently asked
- Is BestStart South Road 1 a free kindergarten?
- BestStart South Road 1 is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at BestStart South Road 1?
- 51 children attend BestStart South Road 1 (roll year 2025).
- Where is BestStart South Road 1?
- 289 South Road Hāwera Central South Taranaki District
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Sources & verification
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- Centre identity, contact, roll, ethnicity, 20 Hours ECE flag: MoE ECE Directory record (Service #50093) ↗ · CC-BY 4.0 via data.govt.nz
- ERO reviews: ERO institution page ↗ · Crown copyright (reuse permitted with attribution)
- Suburb safety & demographics: SafeSuburbs ↗ · crimestats.co.nz ↗ · NZ Police RCVD + Stats NZ 2023 Census, CC-BY 4.0
- Funding policy (20 Hours / Childcare Subsidy / FamilyBoost): parents.education.govt.nz · WINZ · IRD · Crown copyright (policy only — we cite parameters, don't republish)
- Map tiles: © OpenStreetMap · © CARTO · ODbL + CC-BY 3.0
- Machine-readable formats: facts.json · markdown.md
Full source list, licence text, refresh cadence: /sources. How we match, clean, and rank: /methodology.
Data sources & freshness (4 sources · last refresh 12 July 2026)
Service type, address, roll, ethnicity, Equity Index, 20 Hours, Takiwā, lat/lng
Annual financial returns (community-based + umbrella orgs)
Per-centre review reports + 6-dimension letter grades (curriculum / wellbeing / whānau / bicultural / health & safety / leadership)
Safety score, crime/1k, 2023 Census demographics
Last build refresh: . See full methodology + data sources pages for licences, refresh cadences, and known gaps.