Ireland needs publicly funded and delivered childcare to tackle high costs, says National Women’s Council
Council’s pre-budget submission calls for €300m allocation for sector for 2026 as system is ‘not working’ for women or children
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A summer of down time: how can three months with nothing to do be good for teenagers?
We often hear how it’s good for kids to be bored, but surely that depends on how long it’s for
Most of the women in my life dread the eight-week primary school summer holidays
A friend has managed to secure the holy grail of summer camps – one that keeps the children even longer than the school day
Children’s summer camps: From the cost to the hours – are they working for you?
As Liz Carolan writes that the total cost for one child is €757 for summer camps, tell us your story
I’m paying €757 to keep my child busy for 3.6 hours a day. Summer childcare maths doesn’t add up
A patchwork of mostly privately run summer camps, supplemented in many cases by parents taking turns to mind each others’ kids in ad-hoc arrangements, are sure signs of failure at the macro level
Unregulated court guardian service cost €21m last year
Nine years after revelations, service to guard interest of children in care proceedings remains unregulated
Minimum pay for childcare workers to rise to €15 an hour
Government has pledged €45 million to help childcare providers pay an extra 10 per cent per hour
A 9-5 work schedule operates on the assumption someone else is looking after your house and kids all day
Childcare in Ireland: Data-driven approach needed if Government is ever to find a balance that supports families and caregivers
Buildings designed as creches are being sold as residential homes
Government Ministers working to update planning regulations to prevent change of use of childcare facilities
Childcare in Ireland: ‘Even as well-paid professionals, it was an exhausting struggle. The numbers never added up’
Despite ECCE and National Childcare Scheme supports, high costs remain a barrier to women working outside the home
‘The Government has gone very quiet’: childcare providers protest for support after election promises
Pledges to address costs for parents and staff shortages for sector still without action
Supporting new mothers: ‘Crises should not be the trigger for postnatal care’
New campaign Year of Care aims to highlight the particular needs that arise in the first year of motherhood
Government grants to Giraffe Childcare doubled under Core Funding scheme
Ireland’s largest childcare group swung to a small loss in 2023 despite rise in Government funding
When only wealthy fathers take paternity leave, something is broken
Just a quarter of men take parent’s leave compared with two-thirds of women
Girl settles action over burn injuries at creche for €60,000
Lauren Fennelly was four years of age when the alleged incident happened in September 2022
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown has highest turnover of childcare staff in State, figures show
National average rate of staff leaving the service was 24.5 per cent in 2023
A year on from the failed referendums, has anything changed for carers and families?
Women can participate in the paid workforce if they want to, even if the work is often precarious and 'greedy'. What they often can’t do is afford a home within reasonable distance of family and workplace
Stormont publishes first programme for government in over a decade
Hundred-page document outlines plans to tackle North’s spiralling waiting lists
Why childcare students are walking away from childcare jobs
‘It’s tough to do a four-year professional degree and then face the prospect of earning the minimum wage'
Majority support free access to childcare, research finds
Poll finds support for funding early-years education
Portiuncula University Hospital: Not the first time concerns raised about its maternity services
External reviews of delivery of nine babies come in wake of inquiry set up in 2015 around transfer of four newborns to Dublin for neonatal cooling the previous year, a baby’s death and other ‘significant concern’ cases
Children at Dublin creche given medication without parents’ signed consent
Inspection at Crumlin Childcare Centre found children in cold and dirty conditions
Ireland’s childcare sector is in crisis, but is a State-led model the answer?
Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock
What’s in the programme for government: the main points, from housing and health to transport and trade
Department of Justice will incorporate home affairs and migration
Have your say: Have childcare costs impacted your employment?
Dublin Chamber of Commerce has warned that the high cost of childcare has damaged the ability of companies to recruit staff and is driving employees, especially women, out of the workforce
Childcare crisis driving employees out of workforce
9 in 10 businesses said the childcare crisis limited their ability to recruit and retain staff
Tusla placed children with firm blacklisted over vetting concerns
Agency cut ties with company used to supervise access visits between parents and children in care
Women don’t want a rest on Nollaig na mBan. We want decent childcare, equal pay and access to healthcare
Lack of affordable, accessible, quality childcare means women are often forced into part-time, more precarious work
Labour Party pulls out of talks on forming next government
Ivana Bacik communicates decision to leaders of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael
Childcare placement sector making ‘substantial profits’ amid ‘broken’ system, says judge
Judge places two boys in interim care of Tusla but says the agency had ‘serious and fundamental questions’ to answer
Largest childcare group sees profits slump on reduced Covid grants
UK-headquartered group behind Giraffe Childcare and Park Academy blames ‘minor technical discrepancy’ for removal of Giraffe accounts from CRO
Dublin West constituency candidates list: Fine Gael Senator has decent chance of picking up Varadkar seat
Election 2024: Sinn Féin TD Paul Donnelly should be returned, but it might be a big ask for the party to take two seats
Election 2024 manifestos: the parties’ promises on housing, cost of living and health – and how they differ
Dividing lines emerge as parties outline their general election pledges
Greens and Labour clash over track record as Coalition junior partners
Roderic O’Gorman said his party ‘with 12 TDs has been able to deliver more’ than Labour with 37
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