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Looking for a Childcare job? Apply to over 40 open jobs positions are listed on our jobs website. Below are just some of the jobs currently available – for more information or to apply visit www.childcarefinder.ie/jobs Full and Part time Childcare Staff

Demand for crèches: For the first time, there are over 100,000 children in free childcare   This represents an increase of almost 50% in a year, and comes before Zappone brings her plans before the Dáil next week.   THE MINISTER

Over 40 new jobs have been created on our jobs website this month already. They are all listed below. To see more information click on the job below or visit www.childcarefinder.ie/jobs   Pre school teacher required – Dublin 13 Childcare Professionals /

URGENT NOTICE TO CHILDCARE WORKERS who have qualified in recent years. This has just been posted on the Departments website which allows for a bursary of up to €750 if you’ve completed your studies in the last 4 years. Applications

Here at ChildcareFinder.ie we help 100’s of childcare providers reach 1,000’s of parents who are looking for childcare every month. Last year we had over 170,000 searches for childcare on our website and connected 1000’s of parents with childcare providers in their

110,000 children get free childcare worth €4k More than 110,000 children will be in receipt of free State-sponsored childcare by early next year as part of “radical” reforms introduced by Government last summer — saving each family an average of

Photo: Gareth Chaney / Collins More than 300 Irish childcare professionals protested outside Leinster House over low pay as they warned strike action is edging closer. A number of childcare centres across the country closed yesterday in order for management

A Midlands childcare provider says the Government must increase investment to sustain staff and services in the sector. Regina Bushell of Grovelands Childcare will be among those marching on the Dáil this afternoon to signal a number of concerns, including

Childcare providers say they need extra money to make the Government’s childcare schemes work. Professionals are meeting today to discuss the two new plans announced in the budget, which they say will increase their administration and salary costs. The first

Your Money: The ABC guide to the childcare digouts The new childcare subsidies could slash your childcare bill by over €10,000 a year, writes Louise McBride in the Irish Independent Katherine Zappone’s new childcare plan was arguably the centrepiece of

Probe into irregular payments of €500k to child care group Gardaí and the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) are investigating irregular payments totalling €500,000 to a childcare group by the State, the Public Accounts Committee has been

VICTORIA WHITE: When it comes to childcare, Ireland is closer to America than Europe Two-thirds of crèches nationwide have vacancies… 20,000 cots and tubby chairs which need to be filled, writes Victoria White in The Irish Examiner THIS country is beginning to feel more and

Minister for Children addresses Seanad on departmental work   Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Email App The net income method was the fairest way of providing childcare support, Minister for Children Katherine Zappone told the Seanad. “Basing the assessment

Spark says lone parents on subsidised schemes while in training may have to quit courses Childcare costs for some of the State’s poorest families could increase under the Government’s new affordable childcare scheme, a lobby group for lone parents warns.

FERGUS FINLAY: An historic new era of affordable and universal childcare is born The economic return on early years investment is much higher than for any other stage in a child’s life, writes Fergus Finlay in the Irish Examiner. WAS dismissive of the budget last

Giving parents a tax credit for childcare would have cost nearly €600m A TAX CREDIT for parents who incur childcare costs would cost the Irish Exchequer between €290 million and €590 million per year. According to the Minister for Finance Michael

New childcare subsidy will do little to really help women return to work Katherine Zappone has introduced a childcare grant, but Sarah Carey argues her goals to help the poor risk being undone and will do little to help women

Opinion: The government is beginning to recognise that the first five years of a child’s life are the most crucial Adults need to step away and put children back at the centre of childcare, writes Tanya Ward of TheJournal.ie ANY

Creches may have to publish the cost of their fees under new childcare package IT MAY BECOME mandatory for childcare providers such as creches to publish their fees online. In this year’s Budget, Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone announced a new childcare

Stay-at-home parents and families left out of childcare plan New childcare measures have come in for sharp criticism for excluding stay-at-home parents and families who depend on their relatives for childcare. The universal childcare payment and subsidised childcare had been

New subsidy designed to help regulate childcare industry, says Minister Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe has said that says the new childcare subsidy announced in the Budget is a response to the number of unregulated providers. The plan has

Zappone ‘may try to extend childcare subsidies to family minders’ The Government is coming under pressure to extend the childcare plans announced in Tuesday’s Budget. Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone has hinted she may try to extend the subsidies to more