A Parent’s Guide to the National Childcare Funding Programmes 2019-2020 is now available to download Please click the link below to download your own copy A Parent's Guide to the…

​Better Start Quality Development Service  is a national initiative established by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA) to bring an integrated national approach to developing quality in Early…

School Age Childcare Registration On the 18th February 2019, the Child Care Act 1991 (Early Years Services) (Registration of School Age Services) Regulations 2018 came into effect. Services who cater…

Please click here to read the full Newsletter Dear Colleagues, Welcome to the latest edition of our e-bulletin which is designed to keep you up to date with the various…

First Aid Response (FAR): First Aid Response and First Aid Responder. The Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC) has established the First Aid Response standard. It offers training to individuals and groups…

Have you read the new page on 'getting ready for the National Childcare Scheme'? You can find it here https://ncs.gov.ie/gettingreadytoapply #nationalchildcarescheme

29th August 2019 Draft Action Plan sets out proposals for improving access to high quality and affordable early learning and care and school-age childcare through childminding Proposals to extend supports and…

My CCC is a website that outlines the roles of County Childcare Committees For example: WHAT IS A CITY/COUNTY CHILDCARE COMMITTEE (CCC)? City/County Childcare Committees are a Department of Children…

NCS Step by Step Process for Early Years Services Have a look at this handy Step by Step process for the National Childcare Scheme for Early Years Services to follow.…

The #nationalchildcarescheme will open to online applications from Wednesday November 20th! The online system is designed to give applicants an award within a matter of days - or even minutes, depending on…

Always Children First Tue 28 Jan 2020 14:00 Tue 4 Feb 2020 14:30 PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK TO REGISTER Link to register 28th January Link to register 15th February This…

Compliance Workshop Tue 4 Feb 2020 14:30 PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK TO REGISTER Link to register Unannounced Pobal compliance continue. The compliance process involves a series of standardized on-site checks…

Positive Behaviour Tue 18 Feb 2020 18:30 PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK TO REGISTER Link to register This is a practical workshop for Early Years practitioners. Promoting Positive Behaviour in the…

Chat over Lunch "Complaints Policy" Tue 10 Mar 2020 13:00 PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK TO REGISTER Link to register Lunch & chat - Complaints Policy Bring your complaints policy A…

Partnership with Parents Tue 28 Apr 2020 18:30 PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK TO REGISTER Link to register Partnership with parents is a real difficultly, especially with parents who become quite…

Childminding Network Meeting Thu 12 Mar 2020 19:00 PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK TO REGISTER Link to register Putting a face to a name is so important, Come along and meet…

Therapeutic Value of Play Fri 6 Mar 2020 09:30 PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK TO REGISTER Link to register One day workshop for people working with children and adolescents. The day…

Trauma Informed Workshop Thu 5 Mar 2020 09:30 PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK TO REGISTER Link to register Gaining an insight into Trauma from a child’s world In the absence of…

PUPPET SKILLS WORKSHOP Sat 7 Mar 2020 09:30 PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK TO REGISTER Link to register Helping children understand feelings using The Inside out characters . Puppets provide children…

Health, Welfare & Development of the Child Wed 25 Mar 2020 18:30 PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK TO REGISTER Link to register Workshop on the policies required for section Health, Welfare…

TEC Closing Dates & Savers The TEC programmes will permanently close for new registrations at midnight on Friday, 14th February 2020, following the recent commencement of the National Childcare Scheme.  After this…

UPDATE: Information for schools and pre-school settings and parents of students/children on novel coronavirus nCoV-2019 – PIP Announcement There is an ongoing outbreak of a novel Coronavirus in China.…

Please see the following notice from PIP As you may be aware, it is mandatory for service providers to have a written contract or agreement in place with every parent…