Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister of Education): Home-based early childhood education (ECE) has been the fastest growing part of the early childhood sector. We're working to ensure that, in the future at least, 80 percent of the home-based educator workforce will hold a required qualification to ensure better and more consistent quality. In this year's Budget, we're investing $36.2 million of additional funding over the next four years to support home-based early learning services' transition to a more professionalised educator workforce. This will lift the quality funding rate for home-based early childhood education by 5.4 percent from 1 January.