Tipperary Childcare Providers Network

19/08/2022

However, childcare providers fear this "goes nowhere near plugging the gap" needed for increased staff costs, utilities, maintenance and administration.

One of Ireland's leading childcare providers has warned of further closures and staff reductions in the sector due to a delay in a funding scheme agreed last December.

17/08/2022

Higher inflation and historically low funding are leading to many services falling into ‘real financial difficulty’, a leader in the sector said.

22/06/2022

The State is failing children with special educational needs who cannot secure appropriate school places, a report from the Ombudsman for Children has found.

22/06/2022

The group is expressing its opposition to the freezing or capping of fees at a time of high inflation and is also calling for a subsidy of €100 per child on the ECCE scheme to cover costs currently subsidised by the childcare owner.

Childcare providers and parents will stage a protest outside Leinster House today to highlight issues with funding for the sector.

28/05/2022

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EARLY YEARS' SERVICE JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE

09/02/2022

THE quality of childcare services has been hit as over 40pc of staff are actively seeking a job elsewhere, according to a new report.

28/01/2022

"These issues that we are experiencing now didn't begin two years ago when Covid-19 arrived, they began many years before that, with insufficient levels of investment.

High staff absences caused by Covid-19 and staff shortages are forcing crèches around the country to close or reduce opening hours.

14/01/2022

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"Exhausted and burnt out" to say the least.

"I know that there are many other providers that are feeling the same and doing their best," said owner of Cork's Generation Education, Irene Heredia ...

13/12/2021

Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman separately announced €10 million in funding to improve ventilation in creches.

Flexibility on spending includes purchase of high-efficiency particulate-absorbing filters

01/12/2021

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14/10/2021

Thanks to Paula.

“But providers are hopeful that any rises will not just be ring-fenced for entry level but must be pro rata across the board with experienced members of the profession.

“Or else it could cause unrest in that cohort.”

Creche operator Paula Donohoe cautiously welcomed the Government’s Budget 2022 investment in childcare as a long-overdue recognition of the crisis within the sector.

11/10/2021

"A new childcare drive, highlighted in the Sunday Independent yesterday, will see worker salary subvention under the Employee Wage Subsidy Scheme (EWSS) in return for a pledge that the costs charged to parents will not increase".

"There will also be widened access to places under steps the Government has in mind."

Ministers believe the reduced Covid threat will allow several Budget measures aimed at helping with everyday medical costs.