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Please be advised that the ECCE January registration window has been extended to allow Registrations be made up to two weeks in advance of childcare start date.   Therefore, ECCE registrations with a Start Date of 01/01/2018 may be registered  from Monday...

Please be advised, all outstanding EYC and SAC capital returns must be submitted to Pobal by the 30th of December 2017.   Any returns not submitted by that date WILL NOT receive the final 10% of the grant.   Services that do not submit returns will be subject to a...

Additional CCS 2017 Preliminary Payment Pobal are currently working towards calculating the CCS bands and approving the CCS registrations. Until this is confirmed an additional preliminary payment will be made in the week ending 08/12/2017. To date, preliminary...

Title: 08/12/17  DCYA Notice re Severe Weather Warning Body: ​The DCYA has been in close contact with the National Emergency Coordination Committee (NECC) which met today to plan for severe weather conditions expected over the weekend. While the severe weather is...

Please find attached links below for the "Children First National Guiance 2017" and "A Guide for the Reporting of Child Protection and Welfare Concerns" Children First National Guidance 2017 A Guide for the reporting of Child Protection & Welfare Concerns

Please find details below of the ECCE Payments schedule and an update on registrations over Christmas:   Payment Dates:   Payable To: Covering Maximum: 01 December 2017 19 January 2018 7 weeks 08 December 2017 19 January 2018 7 weeks 15 December 2017 19 January...

The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs is delighted to announce that there will be an Early Years and a School Age Childcare Capital Programme in 2018.  The purpose of this announcement is to alert childcare services about the upcoming programme and give time to...

Unannounced compliance visits will commence in November 2017 and continue to the end of August 2018. Note: Services operating ECCE only sessions will not be visited outside of the ECCE programme cycle.  As previously, the compliance process will involve a series of...