August 2026

Dear Service Provider You and your staff are invited to attend online training on the new co-payment functionality at 2.30pm on Thursday 27 August 2026. This functionality went live on 31 July 2026 and is now included as part of the NCS claim process. The new co-payment functionality is mandatory for completion for all newly created and

Celebrating the People Behind Early Learning A Million Children. Hundreds of Thousands of Families. Thousands of Early Years Educators. Working Together. Shaping the Future. Since its introduction in 2010, the State funded Pre-School programme has given more than one million children the opportunity to benefit from high-quality pre-school education. In Shaping the Future, viewers are

Want to know more about the review of the new childminding regulations? Visit https://www.letstalkchildminding.ie/ to find clear, reliable information about what the regulations mean for childminders and how the review works. You can share your experience and views by taking part in the survey. Your feedback will help build a clearer picture of how the