Upcoming Hanen Teacher Talk Training – January 2020 Better Start will be delivering Hanen Teacher Talk in Tipperary, Donegal, Dundalk, Galway, Wexford, Connemara and Fingal beginning in January 2020.   Services in receipt of AIM supports within the last 6 months will be eligible for the training. Invitations will be […]

The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Dr Katherine Zappone TD has today marked the opening of the National Childcare Scheme (NCS) for online applications with the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar TD. The National Childcare Scheme opened for online applications on Wednesday 20 November 2019. Acknowledging this achievement, Minister Zappone stated: […]

Christmas 2019 Payments Arrangements​ ECCE The ECCE payment schedule has been structured to ensure that services receive 4 weeks’ payments in advance, this takes into account standard non-payment weeks such as Christmas, Easter, Halloween. On 22/11/19 services received a payment up to the 27/12/19 (a 5-week period); for most services […]

CPD Payments will be issued to all services for participants who completed Hanen, Lámh and/or NSAI trainings between the 1st of September and the 30th of November on Friday the 13th of December.   Please note that each staff member can avail of a maximum of 18 hours of paid […]

‘As you are aware, the full Enactment of the Children First Act (2015) has resulted in significant changes for those employed in the Early Years Sector. With a legal responsibility for organisations to have a Child Safeguarding Statement in place and the identification of those employed in Early Years Services […]

Published: 5 December 2019 From: Department of Children and Youth Affairs additional funding of €10 million secured under Budget 2020 for the programme, which provides both universal and targeted supports to help children with disabilities participate in mainstream pre-school over 11,700 children in over 3,200 services nationally have received supports to […]

Here are the important dates, deadlines and announcements for the week DEADLINES/IMPORTANT DATES: Friday 6 December 2019 Payments for amended 2018/2019 (last year’s) ECCE registrations to be issued.   Thursday 12 December 2019 (midnight) Part A documents to be submitted to Tusla for re-registration Friday 13th December 2019 Payments for […]

Dear Early Years’ Service Provider, The National Childcare Scheme was launched on Wednesday, 20th November and many of you will now be submitting returns on a weekly basis. Below are some useful reminders regarding returns: •Returns must be submitted on a weekly basis for all children attending your service who […]

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Tusla – Child and Family Agency has today announced that, as part of its commitment to greater communication in the early years sector, the agency is now taking the following steps with immediate effect: Publishing decisions to remove Early Years’ services from the register on Tusla’s website, tusla.ie Publically communicating […]