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Meeting with Minister Phil Hogan on Rates

  Irene Gunning CEO and Teresa  COO recently met with the Minister Phil Hogan from the Department  of the Environment, to discuss  commercial rates on childcare facilities. Minister Hogan agreed to investigate the classification of properties under the 1970 Act as there may be scope therein for Minister Hogan himself to reclassify early childhood care and [...]

Pyjama Day Draw

Visit to the Crumlin Children’s Hospital

E.coli – Protect the children in your care

  The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) voiced its concern at the high levels of E. coli infection in Ireland this week, with provisional figures of 285 cases of human infection recorded in 2011. Young children and infants are particularly at risk from E. coli infection and special attention must be paid to protect [...]

Compliance Visits

  Compliance Visits   Early Childhood Ireland can advise that the compliance visits have been going very sucessfully to date. Pobal has announced that the visits will be stepped up in the coming weeks, with around 1900 onsite visits planned throughout April, May and June. This is in addition to the more than 1,600 visits [...]

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Formal Síolta QAP 2012 – 2014

Garda Vetting Forms

Response to Call for Ban on Popcorn

Promoting Responsible Retailing

Retail Ireland, the national representative body for the retail sector in Ireland, has announced that they are in the process of developing a code of practice to promote responsible retailing. This builds on the measures already taken by the British Retail Consortium in June 2011, when they developed and launched ‘good practice’ guidance for shops [...]