Every fact on Daycare Near Me traces back to one of the 12 sources below. Each entry includes:
API / data URL: https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/__data/assets/text_file/0004/219874/ece-apiv3.json
What we use: 4,375 licensed services. 47 fields per centre: name, MOE service number, service type, address, suburb, regional council, territorial authority, lat/lng, contact (phone, email, manager), authority, 20 Hours ECE flag, Equity Index, Takiwā, education region, statistical area, ward, electorates, current roll, age breakdown (0-5), ethnicity mix.
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Nightly upstream; we re-pull on every Netlify deploy. Roll data refreshed annually each July from the Annual ECE Census.
Original policy: https://www.data.govt.nz/toolkit/policies/nzgoal/
Suggested attribution: Source: Ministry of Education ECE Directory (CC-BY 4.0 via data.govt.nz).
API / data URL: https://www.ero.govt.nz/review-reports/{centre-slug}/
What we use: Per-centre ERO review reports (Education Review / Akarangi / Te Ara Huarau / Governing Body): 10,663 reports across 4,194 unique centres (96 percent of MoE Directory). For each report we capture ERO's overall judgement on the 4-point placement scale (Not well placed / Requires further development / Well placed / Very well placed), report date, report type, governing-body flag, and verbatim quotable extracts. We also derive a 6-dimension letter-grade (A/B/C/D) — curriculum / wellbeing / whānau partnership / bicultural practice / health & safety / leadership — by running ERO's prose through Claude Haiku 4.5 with a fixed rubric (see /methodology#ero-grades). The 4-point judgement is ERO's; the 6 dimension grades are our analysis. Every profile links back to the canonical ERO page.
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Cloudflare-protected; we ingest via FlareSolverr Docker bypass (per /methodology). Full sweep run 2026-05-25; Haiku grading pass completed 2026-05-26 against all 10,646 reports. Report content is refreshed when ERO publishes a new review for a centre.
Original policy: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Suggested attribution: Source: Education Review Office (ero.govt.nz), licensed CC-BY 4.0. Logos and emblems excluded — only text content is republished.
API / data URL: http://www.odata.charities.govt.nz/
What we use: Annual Returns (revenue, expenses, employees, govt vs non-govt income split) for 489 single-centre + 8 umbrella charities (~923 centres covered via consolidated returns).
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Annual filings (deadline 6 months after entity's balance date). We re-ingest with each refresh cycle.
Original policy: https://www.charities.govt.nz/charities-in-new-zealand/the-charities-register/open-data
Suggested attribution: Source: Charities Services, Department of Internal Affairs, New Zealand (CC-BY 4.0).
API / data URL: https://api.business.govt.nz/services/v5/nzbn/
What we use: Director and shareholder data for for-profit operators (BestStart, Kindercare, Busy Bees). Phase B pull — not yet ingested.
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Live API; pull on demand.
Original policy: https://www.nzbn.govt.nz/
Suggested attribution: Source: NZBN Register, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (CC-BY 4.0).
API / data URL: https://nz-crime-8kpe.onrender.com/api/suburbs/{suburb_id}
What we use: Per-suburb safety score, crime rate per 1,000 people, 12-month incident count, crime trend (improving/worsening/stable). Cross-referenced via centre lat/lng → SA2.
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Quarterly upstream from NZ Police Recorded Crime Victims (RCVD) dataset.
Original policy: https://www.police.govt.nz/about-us/publications-statistics/data-and-statistics
Suggested attribution: Source: New Zealand Police, Recorded Crime Victims Statistics (CC-BY 4.0).
API / data URL: https://nz-crime-8kpe.onrender.com/api/suburbs/{suburb_id}/demographics
What we use: Per-suburb population, age brackets (0-14 / 15-64 / 65+), ethnicity mix, born NZ/overseas, home ownership, median income, median rent.
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Every 5 years (next: 2028).
Original policy: https://www.stats.govt.nz/about-us/copyright-licensing-and-disclaimers/
Suggested attribution: Source: Stats NZ 2023 Census, accessed via SafeSuburbs API (CC-BY 4.0).
What we use: FamilyBoost policy parameters (25% rebate, $75/week cap, $140k-$180k phase-out) used to drive /familyboost-calculator. Not republished — referenced.
Licence
Crown copyright (information only — we cite policy parameters, not data)
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Reviewed each NZ Budget (May).
Suggested attribution: Policy reference: Inland Revenue Department FamilyBoost.
What we use: Income thresholds and hourly subsidy rates used to drive the Childcare Subsidy component of /familyboost-calculator.
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Reviewed annually with WINZ rate changes (typically April).
Suggested attribution: Policy reference: Ministry of Social Development Childcare Subsidy.
What we use: Policy parameters (universal for 3-5yr, 20hr/week funded to centre, optional charges) for the 20 Hours ECE component of /familyboost-calculator and centre-profile funding eligibility paragraph.
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Stable since 2007; minor rate changes per NZ Budget.
Suggested attribution: Policy reference: parents.education.govt.nz 20 Hours ECE.
What we use: National median weekly fee benchmarks used in /cost-of-daycare/{suburb}/ and /cost-of-daycare-nz pages. Clearly cited as modelled medians, not per-centre actuals.
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OECE-published (sector advocacy; we cite their public benchmarks)
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Annually with NZ Budget cycle.
Suggested attribution: Benchmark reference: OECE NZ government ECE funding rates.
Free tier for ≤10k requests/mo with attribution link What we use: Operator/chain logo rendering on operator cards + profiles + centre cards when operator known. Attribution shown via website link from operator profile.
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On-render, cached client-side.
Suggested attribution: Logos via logo.dev.
OpenStreetMap data: ODbL · CARTO tiles: CC-BY 3.0 What we use: Base map tiles on every /centre/{slug} profile + /find-by-address page. Geocoding via OSM Nominatim for address lookups.
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Live tile + geocode service.
Original policy: https://carto.com/attribution/
Suggested attribution: Map tiles © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO. Geocoding via Nominatim.