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A new preschool and afterschool will open at St Patrick's Primary School this September. The new service will cater for preschool children aged three to five years and offers the free ECCE childcare scheme. The service will also provide afterschool care to children of St Pat's and surrounding schools. A breakfast club will be available for boys attending St Pat's.

More than seven pre-school services in Westmeath received their Healthy Ireland status recently at an awards ceremony celebrating the second annual Healthy Ireland Smart Start Awards, held in Athlone Institute of Technology.

Galway Fine Gael senator Hildegarde Naughton has labelled Tuesday’s Budget as ‘progressive’ and has welcomed its focus on childcare provision.

Teddy Bears Lodge crèche, based in Woodlands Estate, Lackagh, is celebrating its 10th birthday on July 4th.

Early Childhood Ireland wrote to senators regarding Minister Joan Burton’s sick pay proposal ahead of Minister Richard Bruton’s address to the Seanad this week. It warned: “This flawed sick pay proposal would be fatal for jobs in the childcare sector if implemented, forcing half of Ireland’s crèches and preschools out of business and driving thousands of people onto the dole queue. Minister Richard Bruton must face up to the anti jobs nature of this dangerous proposal.”

Parents seeking information about childcare funding programmes are welcome to attend the next parents’ network meeting in the Clayton Hotel on Tuesday, May 15 at 7.30pm, hosted by Galway City & County Childcare Committee.

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There has been a noticeable increase in the demand for qualified childcare professionals in Ireland and graduates now have a wider range of career options to choose from in the childcare sector including crèche, day nursery, playgroup, and Montessori; special needs assistant in classroom or day care centre; childcare professional or nanny at home or abroad; after-school care; and starting your own childcare business/home-based child-minder.

The Village Nursing Care Centre in Craughwell has recently launched a home care service with a difference.

During the monthly meeting of Westport Town Council, a report which highlights the provision of childcare in Westport concludes that there is more than sufficient supply for pre-school places, however, there is no community facility providing full time, part time, and afterschool care in Westport.