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Service providers will be invited to give their views on new inspection regime The quality of education being provided at pre-schools will be assessed for the first time after the summer under a new inspection regime. The Department of Education

Childcare providers – beware of new scam to try to defruad your childcare business Several childcare providers have reported this scam to us recently. If you get the below email, simply delete and ignore it. Basically if you engage the

New Deal for Members with ChildcareFinder.ie Early Childhood Ireland announces new Member Deal with ChildcareFinder.ie No Business – no matter how small can afford to ignore the power of the internet. If your business is not yet on line, you

Ireland has some fairly progressive childcare measures in place, yet still child-minding businesses are going to the wall. This is a really interesting article from The Journal. It outlines why the ECCE has made it difficult for some childcare providers

Parents Moving Back To Ireland Are Seeking Childcare – A Nice Trend To See For Economic Recovery! We’re big on data and analytics here at ChildcareFinder.ie and we’re always looking at where and how parents find our website to look

With so much talk about Ireland’s early years strategy and the drive towards quality, accessible and affordable childcare, this seminar is aimed at local early childhood care and education services interested in the quality journey towards Síolta accreditation for early

Tax credits for childcare can lead to costs going up, as has happened in other countries where they’ve been introduced, a Dáil committee on children has been told. While recent public debate has focused on tax credits as a way

Statement from Teresa Heeney CEO of Early Childhood Ireland appearing before the Joint Committee on Health and Children, as part of its consultative process, in the preparation for a Report on the Development of Quality and Affordable Child Care “We

Irish parents are spending double on childcare compared to Europe The average cost of childcare is €700 per month per child, rising to €1,000 in urban centres. Irish parents pay twice as much as other parents in Europe – and

Childcare Providers! Here are some interesting statistics from our database from this week alone! Parents from all over Ireland are using ChildcareFinder.ie every week to find local childcare. Also, childcare workers use our website to find jobs in Childcare in

The Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis opened in Dublin yesterday evening (24th April 2015) at the RDS, with its new childcare policy taking centre stage. It runs from Friday 24 to Saturday 25 April with Fianna Fáil’s new childcare policy being officially launched

“This is a great day for Children’s rights,” Senator Jillian VanTurnhout THE SUPREME COURT has ruled that the Children’s Referendum should not be re-run. A High Court petition taken by Joanna Jordan from Dun Laoghaire to overturn the result of the

Parents are for the first-time being invited to submit suggestions to the Government on how to address the childcare crisis. Children’s Minister James Reilly is seeking submissions from parents and other interest parties as part of a review of childcare

This is some really great information from the RSA on the right car seat for your child. You can download the PDF document by following this link:  

Tax credits for working parents and state-paid subventions for private creches are among proposals for childcare support set to be launched at this week’s Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis. In an interview with the Irish Examiner, leader Micheál Martin outlined the

We had a great time meeting lots of Early Childhood Ireland members at the “Play on the Brain” conference in Croke park last weekend. At our stand, we ran a competition to win a year of free advertising on ChildcareFinder.ie

Fingal early childhood care and education providers scoop nine awards across Innovation, Learning Stories and Síolta curriculum initiatives at the Early Childcare Ireland conference Fingal County Childcare Committee is delighted to announce that six Fingal early childhood care and education

Today Google has made some very large changes to their search engine. Starting April 21 2015, Google say that they will start to “use a websites ‘mobile-friendliness’ as one of many factors to help rank searches done on mobile devices.”

Architect Takaharu Tezuka creates imaginative and versatile personal spaces. He’s a brilliant architect who has kids in mind! Take a look at his original idea of what a kindergarten should look like for kids! He says “children should not be controlled

Having an advert on ChildcareFinder.ie guarantees that parents will find you when they are looking for childcare online. In order to maximise the benefit from your childcare advert you should keep the following 5 tips in mind. Carefully planning your childcare advertising

Over the weekend at the Early Childcare Ireland conference and AGM in Croke Park, ChildcareFinder.ie were located at stand 18 of the Expo hall. Lots of childcare providers and people who work hard in the childcare sector popped by to

Minister for Children tells Early Childhood Ireland conference delegates that increased ECCE capitation and supports for children with additional needs, along with less red tape in inspections are all key priority areas Meanwhile, Early Childhood Ireland welcomes reports today that