ECCE

A broken system that’s failing providers, educators and families With years-long waiting lists, soaring fees, troubling staff shortages and many facilities closing, the Irish childcare system is in crisis. Joining Laura this week to unpack the many reasons that the system is broken is Elaine Dunne from the Federation for Early Childhood Providers and social […]

4 years ago

“Young children and their families deserve better” Like the children in our crèches and pre-schools, we all learned some valuable lessons this year. One of them was just how essential great childcare is; a truth that came sharply into focus when we simply didn’t have any. So how is a service that, at some point, […]

5 years ago

“She fights every single day to survive so why should she have to fight for her basic right to education?” A mother has vowed to fight for her child’s right to education after she was told her daughter with special needs would be unable to start Montessori school on Monday. Tracy Carroll, from just outside […]

5 years ago

More than 100,000 children will be impacted. Earlier this week, the Department of Education confirmed that school children will be spending an extra few days at home after the Christmas break, with schools across the nation now only set to return on Monday, January 11th, all in a bid to slow down the spread of […]

6 years ago

Pretty much everything you need to know as a parent.

7 years ago

I had been quite lucky in the childcare department. One day when my son was about four months old, I was walking down the road, and I had the thought: “What am I going to do about childcare?” At that exact moment, a woman just ahead of me, who was juggling a tiny baby and […]

11 years ago