Corrections had contracted People At Risk Solutions (PARS) to manage the 12-week transitional supported accommodation service which helps offenders comply with their prison release conditions.
Corrections operations director Lynette Cave confirmed no child sex offenders would be placed in the Dent St home but would not say if Corrections would continue to run the facility for other offenders on release from jail.
"Corrections is conducting a review into how we engaged with the community regarding the placement of child sex offenders in supported accommodation. This will allow us to identify what we can do differently in future," Ms Cave said.
"We are always open to improving how we engage with concerned communities to ensure they know their safety always comes first."
Three Corrections staff visited two early childhood centres and one school on Monday and were visiting remaining schools and childhood centres in Whangarei yesterday."It was to discuss their concerns and how we can better build the community's understanding of how we work with service providers to safely manage community-based offenders," Ms Cave said.
Beverly Ngaropo, the chair of Forum North Childcare centre, on Dent St, said the centre was visited in October by two people saying they were from PARS.
"At no time during this visit was it mentioned offenders were to be housed in our immediate community. We were told the visit was purely to introduce themselves and would be visiting all schools and early childcare centres in the Whangarei area," Mrs Ngaropo said.
"This is not consultation in any way, shape or form, no matter how you look at it."
She said if there had been mention of child sex offenders being housed 100m away, the centre's response would have been "unequivocally no".
On Monday three Corrections staff members visited the centre and apologised and reassured them no more offenders of that nature would be housed there, Mrs Ngaropo said.
