This festival runs across Limerick City and County from Saturday 16th April to Friday 22nd April. To support the event, Limerick Childcare Committee is providing workshops on 'Basic First Aid for Parents' in 6 different venues during the festival. They are free of charge and include Heartsaver CPR/AER training for infants, CPR for children and [...]
The first pre-school providers in Ireland to receive the Healthy Ireland Award for the delivery of health promoting pre-school services will be honoured at an important award ceremony and showcasing event in Athlone IT on Saturday 2nd April. Over 160 service providers operating across the country have completed the training programme and have been assessed [...]
Confused about your child's eligibility for free pre-school? We are delighted to announce our new ECCE Calculator. Just enter your child's date of birth and you will see the date s/he may start.
DCYA has updated its FAQ document on all childcare funding programmes. See full document entitled 'DCYA Programme Information and FAQs March 2016' here.
The list of Early Years DCYA Recognised Qualifications for the purposes of meeting the minimum qualification requirement in the pending Early Years Regulations and for meeting the contractual requirements for the DCYA Childcare Funding Programmes has been updated. This list enables employees working in the Early Years sector in Ireland to verify whether the qualifications they hold are recognised. Please [...]
Last November we conducted a survey regarding levels of income, costs and wages in the Limerick childcare sector which we hope will help to highlight the need for a review, at national level, of supports towards childcare services, owners, managers and staff. We would like to thank all the services who took the time to [...]
Application details are now available for Early Years Capital Funding 2016 (EYC2016). Applications may be made online via the PIP system during the week ending 18th March 2016. The expected closing date for applications is during the week ending 8th April 2016. This funding is specifically for pre-school providers – both community/not-for-profit and private providers – who want [...]
From September 2016 in ECCE services, higher capitation will be paid to individual ECCE sessions (or rooms) which are led by Early Years professionals with a relevant Level 7 (or higher) qualification. Services with multiple ECCE rooms, but only one with the necessary higher capitation qualification, can avail of this higher funding for part of [...]
DCYA has announced the launch of the expansion of the Community Childcare Subvention (CCS) Programme to private childcare providers. Please see CCS Announcement for Private Providers to read full details of the Minister's announcement.
Minister Reilly has announced the launch of capital funding totalling €4 million for Early Years services in 2016 (EYC2016). This funding is specifically for pre-school providers – both community/not-for-profit and private providers – who want to expand their services to cater for more children from September 2016. Applications for funding through the EYC2016 will be taken [...]
