Govt to write off small Novopay overpayments

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Steven Joyce | Education

Minister Responsible for Novopay Steven Joyce today announced the Ministry of Education will not be seeking to recover small overpayments to school staff that are uneconomic to recover. “In order to assist the recovery of the system and clearance of the overpayment backlog, I have taken the pragmatic decision that the Ministry should not seek to recover a number of smaller overpayments that would take up a lot of time for little benefit to any party,” Mr Joyce says...

Novopay to stay in the meantime

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Steven Joyce | Education

Minister Responsible for Novopay Steven Joyce today announced that Talent2 will continue to administer the school payroll – but that the long-term future of the system will stay under review. “The decision to stay with Novopay at this point was made very carefully after a great deal of consideration and weighing up of all the risks,” Mr Joyce says...

Govt releases PwC report on Pay Period 3

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Steven Joyce | Education

Minister Responsible for Novopay Steven Joyce today released the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report on complaints and notifications in regards to Pay Period 3 of the schools’ payroll. Pay Period 3 of the new financial year, which was paid on the morning of 1 May, paid 87,812 people a total of $164.55 million...

New ERO reports to show quality of ECE services - Voxy

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Children up to the age of two are also a priority for ERO. -ERO has separate review procedures for kohanga reo. Home-based education and care services and hospital-based education and care services will still be reviewed under the 2002 procedures.

Quality of early childhood service review - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
ERO also wants to be sure that early childhood services are helping priority learners – Māori, Pacific and children with special learning needs. Children up to the age of two are also a priority for ERO. *ERO has separate review procedures for kōhanga reo.

School bus rules relaxed - Stuff.co.nz

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Classrooms are chugging back into action as some Manawatu children return from their school holidays with a free ride to begin term two. Some Ashhurst School pupils were yesterday among 4000 students nationwide to benefit from a new school bus rule ...

Novopay getting 'remarkably' better

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Schools are stuck with the Novopay payroll software, bugs and all.

Food in schools

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The Children's Commissioner is calling for an enhanced Food in Schools programme but it is not endorsing a Bill that's currently before Parliament.

Govt sticking with Novopay, says Minister

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The Government's point man on sorting out the bugs in the national school payroll system - the Minister Responsible for Novopay, Steven Joyce - has decided to stick with it for the time being.