Report of the Working Party on Childcare Training.

In 1986, the New Zealand Department of Education established a working party on the training of child caregivers. Members of the working party were charged with making recommendations on: (1) a training course for child care workers which would fit within a common core prescription for the training of early child care and education personnel; (2) the form, length, content, and style of training, and an appropriate delivery system; (3) ways of ensuring that bicultural understanding would permeate the training provision; and (4) methods for recruitment and retention of personnel. After introductory and summary sections, the report offers recommendations for restructuring child care training, a common core content of training, the selection and recruitment of personnel, cross-crediting and equivalence of training, staffing and conditions of service, an administrative and professional support structure, and funding. A glossary of terms is provided. Appendices contain information on current child care training courses, evaluation of outpost training, procedures used at Auckland College of Education, a submission to the working party of the views of Pacifica Inc. (which represents Pacific Islanders), and a submission of the views of A'oga Amata, the Samoan Preschool organization. (RH)