Professional Responsibilities for Early Years Educators
Download "Code of Professional Responsibilities and Code of Ethics for Early Years Educators", a publication from the Professionalisation Sub-Group of the Early Years Forum here.
Download "Code of Professional Responsibilities and Code of Ethics for Early Years Educators", a publication from the Professionalisation Sub-Group of the Early Years Forum here.
The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Dr. Katherine Zappone today launched the Early Years Sector Profile Report 2018/2019. This annual report – the seventeenth in the series – provides a detailed overview of the early learning and care and school age childcare sector in Ireland, including the numbers of children enrolled in early learning [...]
The Draft Childminding Action Plan sets out proposals for improving access to high quality and affordable early learning and care and school-age childcare through childminding. Public consultation in the form of focus groups of childminders will take place over the coming weeks. Limerick Childcare Committee invites childminders to a consultation meeting in the Southcourt Hotel, [...]
Press release from Department of Children and Youth Affairs following Budget 2020 https://www.gov.ie/en/news/44fc52-minister-zappone-announces-a-94-million-budget-package/
The National Childcare Scheme (NCS) will open for applications on 20th November 2019. To find out more about NCS, please visit https://ncs.gov.ie/home
The September bulletin from the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs can be downloaded here DCYA Early Years Bulletin September 2019
On the 11th March, 2019, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Dr Katherine Zappone, announced the launch of the National Childcare Scheme along with its new website https://ncs.gov.ie/ See full Press Release here.
Details of the 2019 Capital Grants for Early Years and School Age Childcare Services are available here.
The Limerick Parenting Calendar, January to June 2019 has been collated through submissions from Parenting Limerick partners and other stakeholders. All programmes listed fulfil the function of supporting parents in their role as a parent. It is available to download here. The purpose of collating the Limerick Parenting Calendar is to have a schedule of [...]
The Access and Inclusion Model (AIM) is a model of supports designed to promote inclusion and to ensure that children with disabilities can meaningfully participate in the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) free pre-school programme in mainstream pre-school settings. AIM is a child-centred model, offering a range of universal and targeted supports. It offers [...]