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Even when your preschool closes over the weekend, we’ll keep growing your business. Here’s a selection of enquiries sent to childcare providers who are listed on our site over this past weekend alone. I would just like to enquire if you take

The Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA) has declined to provide an estimate as to when the ACS, originally slated for September 2017, will be able to officially launch. THE GOVERNMENT’S SIGNATURE Affordable Childcare Scheme (ACS) is set to

‘Laughable’, ‘a joke’, ‘cynical’, ‘opportunistic’ – Zappone brought to task by parents over childcare fees crisis The introduction of a universal subsidy for childcare in September saw many creches across the country raise their fees at the same time. THE

A lack of childcare has meant that almost 30pc of parents could not attend work or missed out on job opportunities, a new survey has found. The research also found that women are twice as likely as men to miss

Three out of ten parents (28%) could not attend work or have missed out on new job opportunities because they could not access childcare. This is according to a survey of 1,000 respondents which was undertaken on behalf of Seas

Why this créche chain is banning glitter for Christmas crafts ‘If we’re all getting through kilos and kilos of it, we’re doing terrible damage,’ says director A nursery chain is to ban children from using glitter because of fears about

A report has put Ireland at the bottom when it comes to the amount spent on pre-primary education. The report, by philanthropic foundation Bertelsmann Stiftung, also ranks Ireland 21st out of 28 countries on education equality and criticises Ireland’s two

This is what parents are asking childcare providers Every day, parents use ChildcareFinder.ie to contact childcare providers who are listed on our site. Here are just a selection of  enquiries sent to childcare providers who are listed our site in the last

The lesson is that struggling preschool staff want a fair wage Parents are paying the equivalent of a second mortgage on childcare because state investment is 10% of what is internationally recommended, says Marian Quinn EARLY childhood education and care will

An additional €20 million will be allocated towards supporting childcare measures, including the extended free pre-school programme. This means there will be a full two-year service available from September 2018. During his budget speech in the Dail today, Mr Donoghue said

Budget cash for updating childcare facilities Childcare providers will receive increased funding to upgrade their facilities and assist with administration costs as part of Budget 2018. Having rolled out the first phase of the affordable childcare scheme, Children’s Minister Katherine

Childcare providers want to lower qualifications standards for staff Group says carers are being ‘forced out’ of sector due to excessive regulation Childcare providers want the Government to reduce qualification standards for their employees in order to tackle a “staffing

‘Huge crèche fees are not the childcare sector’s fault. They’re the minister’s fault’ Affordable childcare schemes are great but shouldn’t rearing children at home also be more ‘affordable’ Staying at home for a parent, be it mother or father, is

More than 80% of childcare providers have signed up to deliver extra supports for families. There had been fears that parents would not be able to avail of the new Affordable Childcare scheme, as many facilities were slow to register citing

Affordable Childcare Scheme: ‘Childcare providers are desperate and frustrated’ Childcare providers have subsidised the chronic underfunding from the government out of their own pockets for years, Jennifer Whitmore writes for TheJournal.ie – link below THERE HAS BEEN lots of feelgood

Crèches will be ‘monitored’ over abuse of childcare subsidy Minister Zappone warns against profiteering as Affordable Childcare Scheme begins Parents of children in registered childcare providers will have up to €80 a month knocked off their bills under the Affordable

Increase to childcare subsidy could be scrapped if crèches hike prices – Zappone warns The proposed boost to the childcare subsidy will be scrapped if crèches increase prices a planned, Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone has warned. The Minister wants to

Group airs concerns for future of childcare for hundreds of Cork kids IF one assumes that we are all born equal, then each of us starts from the same position in life. However, each of us is born into varying

‘It was never going to be easy’: Zappone defends childcare scheme after criticism The new scheme is being rolled out for the first time this year. INDEPENDENT TD MATTIE McGrath has called on Minister for Children Katherine Zappone to fix

The failure of so many childcare providers to sign up for the new scheme underlines how much work remains to be done, writes Elaine Loughlin for The Irish Examiner Overhauling one of the most expensive childcare systems in the world was

The high level of bureaucracy is being blamed Childcare providers say they’re not signing up to the affordable care scheme because of the bureaucracy involved. Just 60 percent of facilities have signed up to date, with thousands of parents set

Parents of under-threes to get €20 a week with payment set to start on Friday but estimated 9,000 parents will be left without state subsidy For many parents it may be a misnomer, but the Govenment’s new affordable childcare strategy,