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29 April, 2015

HSE Child Safety Website

    Child Safety - Preventing Unintentional Injuries   The HSE have developed a  Child Safety - Preventing Unintential Injuries website which aims to raise awareness of injury risks and offer advice which will help to keep children safe. There a huge range of safety topics to explore. Click here to visit the HSE Child Safety website         

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17 April, 2015

DCYA Announce €7 million in Capital Funding for Childcare Services

Wednesday 16th April 2015 Dr. James Reilly T.D., Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, has today announced the launch of capital funding totalling €7 million for Early Years services. Minister Reilly stated: “I am happy to be in the position to announce a new scheme of capital funding for early years services. This demonstrates the on-going commitment of this Government to developing quality childcare provision in Ireland.” The Minister announced that €5 million...

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12 March, 2015

Aistear Síolta Practice Guide

  The purpose of the Practice Guide is to support practitioners in using Aistear: the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework (2009a) and Síolta, The National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education (2006) together to develop the quality of their curriculum and in doing so, to better support children’s learning and development. The Practice Guide is based on the understanding that settings are compliant with, or are working to become compliant with The Child Care (Pre-Scho...

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