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For home-based ECE in New Zealand

Keep every child’s learning connected across every home.

Bring learning, planning and family communication into one place, with access shaped around the way your service works.

A home-based educator sits on a rug in a sunlit New Zealand home, exploring pinecones and wooden blocks with two young children.

Home-based ECE is built into the way Educa works

Educa has supported home-based services for many years, with settings and workflows that reflect how service leaders, visiting teachers, educators and whānau work together around each child.

Access shaped around each role

Give service leaders, visiting teachers, educators and whānau access to the children and information relevant to their role.

Keep practice consistent

Keep learning records, forms, templates and important documents connected across the service.

Straightforward for every role

Clear workflows make Educa simple for service leaders, visiting teachers, educators and whānau to use.

Creating inspired explorers

Make every child’s learning journey visible

Bring observations, Learning Stories, planning and family contributions together to support consistent documentation, informed planning and a clear view of each child’s progress over time.

  • Capture Learning Stories and observations in one place
  • Connect planning, goals and interests over time
  • Share learning with families and whānau, and invite their contribution
A young child in a New Zealand garden examines a leaf while an educator kneels beside them.
Learning Story
Nikau’s garden discovery
Shared with family

Support every role with the right access

Give everyone the visibility they need to support their role. Educa makes different levels of access straightforward to manage across the service.

  • Educators only see children connected with their own home
  • Visiting teachers see the educators and children they support
  • Management retains service-wide visibility
  • Families and whānau see information relevant to their child
A visiting teacher sitting on the floor with a home-based educator and two young children, looking at a drawing together in a warm home setting.
Access shaped around each role

One site for your whole service

Keep each educator home private while management sees the full service. Pricing is based on your total number of children, not a separate minimum for every home.

Create consistency without adding complexity

Support consistent, well-documented practice across every home with clear workflows for service leaders, visiting teachers and educators.

  • Standardise visiting teacher records, health and safety checks, and service forms across every home
  • Keep policies, procedures and other key service documents current and accessible
  • Track educator induction, qualification progress and professional learning in one connected place
Service forms
Key documents
Educator development

Let’s explore how Educa could support your service

Every home-based service works differently. Tell us a little about yours and we’ll help you explore whether Educa could provide a simpler, more practical fit.

We’ll get in touch to understand how your service works and what support you need.