The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth  welcomes the launch of a toolkit for including children from birth to 5 years in decision-making. The toolkit has been published by Hub na nÓg, the national centre of excellence and coordination in children and young people’s participation in decision making, […]

Minister Roderic O’Gorman TD has today announced the launch of the €25m Building Blocks Extension Grant scheme for early learning and childcare providers. The Building Blocks Extension Scheme will deliver additional capacity by supporting existing early learning and childcare Core Funding partner services to extend their premises. It will also […]

New figures show how the Government’s free pre-school programme – the Early Childhood Care and Education or ECCE programme – has transformed early learning experiences and development opportunities for young children in this country. Full press release can be accessed here

Today, Minister O’Gorman published Introductory Guidelines to Support the Inclusion of Autistic Children in Early Learning and Care, School-Age Childcare and Childminding Settings. The Guidelines are for early years educators, school-age childcare practitioners and childminders who are currently working to support the meaningful inclusion of autistic children in early learning […]

Minister Roderic O’Gorman TD welcomes strong commitment from Early Learning and Childcare services to Core Funding for third year running with over 90% of services now signed up. For the third year of operation, Core Funding has increased by 15% to €331 million. The full Press Release can be read […]

Find out more about what the DCEDIY  #Budget2025 package might mean for you here: https://brnw.ch/21wNm7i

Minister Roderic O’Gorman TD has published the first group of early learning and childcare settings to receive a funding boost through the Equal Start scheme. Equal Start, launched earlier this year, is a new, DEIS-style funding model. It provides a set of universal and targeted measures to support access to, […]

Minister Roderic O’Gorman TD has today announced the publication of the new Childminding Regulations, which will come into effect on 30 September. This is the first time that childminders will be able to register with Tusla under new regulations that reflect the home and family setting in which childminders work […]

A new national  Parent and Toddler Groups page is now live. Access all Parent and Toddler groups, including those running in Kerry here.

Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman TD today welcomed the introduction of new subsidy rates under the National Childcare Scheme (NCS), which is set to substantially reduce out-of-pocket costs for early learning and childcare for tens of thousands of families across the country. Read the full […]