A cross community childcare project carried out by the Carlow/Kilkenny local HSE health office was presented with the best overall award for services to children and young people in Croke Park in Dublin on Thursday February 19, 2009.
The Kilkenny Community Early Years Project won the award for Effective Practice in the Community along with the best overall award at the second nationwide Awards for Services to Children and Young People. The award was presented to Ann McDonagh by the Minister for Children, Barry Andrews.
The Kilkenny Community Early Years Project is a cross community childcare project with a strong family support ethos. It is committed to providing quality childcare and early education in a safe stimulating and welcoming environment where children can play and develop at their own pace and in their own way regardless of individual needs, background, gender or ethnicity.
The project targets the communities of Kilkenny city and county and facilitates parents who are accessing training and education through the VTOS programme by offering childcare places.
