Parent Information

Roscommon County Childcare Committee provide information to parents on:

The Free Preschool Year Early Childhood Care & Education (ECCE) Scheme
The Community Childcare Subvention Scheme (CCS)
Childcare Employment and Training Support (CETS) scheme
Childminding
Parent and Toddler groups
Quality in Childcare

If you require information on any of the above, please contact RCCC on 094-9622540 or e-mail info@roscommonchildcare.ie

For a list of childcare services in Co. Roscommon and information on what schemes they offer, click here.

To read RCCC's most recent parent newsletter (August 2011), click here.

Parents for health

This website aims to raise awareness of the importance of healthy lifestyle habits in children. It also provides a number of resources for parents to help their children to be active and have a healthy diet.

You will also find a new healthy tip poster here once a fortnight which you can print off and display.

Parents Information documents

Parents may find the following links useful:

Finding Childcare in Roscommon
ECCE Scheme (Free Pre-School Year) - Parent Information Leaflet (Sept 2011 - Augusut 2012)
Parent ECCE Info Leaflet for Sept 2012
ECCE Scheme (Free Pre-School Year) - Parent Information Page
Community Childcare Subvention (CCS) Scheme - Parent Information Leaflet (Sept 2011 - August 2012)
Parents CCS Information Leaflet for Sept 2012
Community Childcare Subvention (CCS) Scheme - information on subsidised childcare
Parents Childcare Employment and Training Support Scheme Information Leaflet (Sept 2011 - Aug 2012)
Parents CETS Info Leaflet for Sept 2012
Parent & Toddler Groups in Co. Roscommon
Choosing a Childminder
A Parents Guide to Choosing Quality Childcare
Parent's Guide to the Child Care (Pre-School Services) Regulations 2006 (Barnardos)
Our Children First - A Parent's Guide to the National Child Protection Guide (Barnardos)
Learning Together - A Parent's Guide to Early Childhood Learning (Barnardos)
Partners in Learning - A Parent's Guide to Partnership in Childcare (Barnardos)
Get With IT! - understanding and identifying cyberbullying to help protect your children (Barnardos)
Guide to books for 0-5 year olds - Barnardos
Tip sheet for play with babies
Tip sheet for play with toddlers
Tip sheet for play with young children (2.5 to 6 years)

The Department of Children and Youth Affairs have released an 'ECCE Programme Guide to the Programme and the Administrative Procedures for Service Providers and Parents'. This contains information regarding deadlines, rules etc. that may be helpful to ECCE parents.

Information Leaflets in various languages

Roscommon County Childcare Committee (RCCC) would like to thank Clare County Childcare Committee for giving permission to place the following publication 'Benefits of Pre-School for Your Child and Making the Move to Primary School' on our website. This publication is available in various languages and can be read by clicking on the links below:

Arabic French Lingala Portugese Brazilian Swahili

Czech Hindi Lithuanian Russian Urdu

English Latvian Polish Slovak Mandarin

Again, RCCC would like to thank Clare County Childcare Committee for giving permission to place the following publication 'Information and Prompts for Parental Declaration Forms for the Early Childhood Care & Education (ECCE) Scheme and Community Childcare Subvention Scheme (CCS)' on our website. This publication is available in various languages on the links below:

Arabic Chinese French Irish Russian Urdu

Latvian Lingala Lithuanian Polish Portuguese Swahili Czech

Some useful websites for parents...

Department for Children & Youth Affairs website is where parents can find information on the Childcare Regulations, Child Welfare & Protection, Early Years Education, the Early Childhood Care & Education Scheme (free pre-school year) and other information/publications relevant to childcare.

Barnardos offer a wide range of supports, training and publications.

One Family offer a wide range of services to one-parent families, to those experiencing a crisis pregnancy and to those working with one-parent families.

Parents Plus is a registered charity committed to researching and developing educational materials and resources for parents and children and to providing support to professionals working with children and families in the community.

Cuidiú are a voluntary parent-to-parent support group and their mission of ‘information, education and support’ encourages a confident, positive approach to parenting, empowering parents to make informed choices about issues from pregnancy right up to adolescence.

Rollercoaster offers advice and support to all age ranges from “Mums2Be to Toddler2Teen”

Dad.ie is Ireland's only pregnancy & parenting website dedicated to discussing issues from a Dad's perspective. Dad.ie offers parenting advice and information on a host of areas including pregnancy, Fatherhood, Money & Legal Issues, and Lifestyle & Health Matters.

Consumer Watch is a website to support consumers and advise of any faulty goods/toys, etc. that may be on the market. At ConsumerWatch.com the goal is to keep parents and other interested parties up to date on the latest child safety information.