A new pilot scheme will provide meals, including hot meals, for children in early learning and childcare settings.
The €150,000 pilot scheme was announced by...
Representatives of the childcare sector have said that Budget 2022 does not do enough to address costs for parents, or guarantee sustainability for service...
Childhood Services Ireland has called for an extension to funding which has supported play pods in childcare services.
The association says that the play pod...
COVID-19 outbreaks at schools and childcare facilities across Ireland rose sharply last week with a total of 31 outbreaks associated with schools and 22...
Early Childhood Ireland has called for early years practitioners to be given the same treatment as professionals working across the wider care and education...
The Covid-19 pandemic has hit Ireland’s childcare sector particularly hard because of deep-rooted, long-term and structural flaws in the sector.
That’s according to Early Childhood...
Concerns have been raised that any delays in Covid-19 testing will have serious implications for childcare settings across the country.
Early Childhood Ireland has said...
Staffing levels in childcare must be maintained at pre-Covid-19 levels, and investment in the sector cannot fall in the months and years to come.
That’s...
Maintaining physical distancing with pre-school children is impossible and the changes required by the COVID-19 pandemic pose a fundamental threat to the survival of...
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has been highly critical of the government's childcare proposal for medical workers, saying that it is "worse than...
A Galway TD has said that childcare providers are losing faith in the government over delays to its COVID-19 Wage Support Childcare Scheme.
The scheme...
The insurance crisis has seen costs for many childcare providers triple according to Independent Galway-Roscommon TD Denis Naughten.
He said that the difficulty many in...
Buttons ‘n’ Bows Childcare Centre in Moylough is planning providing even more amenities for children with the addition of a new outdoor play area.
A...
Fianna Fáil City Councillor, Alan Cheevers, has said the government are not taking any actions to curtail soaring childcare costs, despite claiming to do...
Early Learning and School Age Childcare providers in Galway have been awarded almost €600,000 in grant funding announced this week.
Children's Minister Katherine Zappone said...
