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The Department of Children and Youth Affairs have announced Early Years Capital 2017 which aims to support the early years sector to increase the number of available registered early years’ services in 2017 and to contribute to improving the sustainability and quality...

Pobal are delighted to announce that the Early Years Capital 2017 programme has been launched by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs.  Please find enclosed link here to guidelines which contains further details of this exciting funding opportunity for early...

Building a new childcare system, €4m capital funding confirmed Statement by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Dr Katherine Zappone Monday 20th March, 2017 The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Dr. Katherine Zappone, has announced that €4m is being...

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Garda vetting: Inspections are showing a continued trend of services with staff not garda vetted. Tusla are going to start escalating this non-compliances as per Q91 below, in addition if they come across a service with no staff garda vetted which they have, they will...

A new CCS Plus FAQ Document has been uploaded to the Pip portal. Please click Here for further details on this CCS Plus document.     

Guidelines for use of Schools also confirmed at launch of Action Plan Joint Statement by Minister Zappone and Minister Bruton On foot of commitments made in the Programme for a Partnership Government, and following a period of intensive collaboration and consultation,...

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The Better Start Access and Inclusion Model (AIM) is a model of supports designed to ensure that children with disabilities can access the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme. Its goal is to empower service providers to deliver an inclusive pre-school...