Month: February 2023

Squeeze In A Read
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Squeeze in a Read this Saturday, 25 February 2023

This Saturday, 25 February 2023, is Ireland Reads Day. This initiative is part of the Government’s ‘Keep Well’ campaign and supported by public libraries, publishers, booksellers, authors and many organisations that promote literacy and the arts. Ireland Reads encourages young and old to “Squeeze in a Read”. They’re asking everyone to pledge time to reading

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Press Release – Barometer 2023

Public view Early Years education as equally important to primary or secondary education and care – Annual Barometer finds strong demand for high-quality care for younger children –   Ireland is at an all-time high of support for high quality Early Years care for children. That’s according to survey results published today (20.02.23) by Early

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Early Childhood Ireland Policy Brief
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Policy Brief – Shared Island: Early Childhood education and care in Ireland and Northern Ireland

The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has just launched ‘Shared Island – Early Childhood Education and Care in Ireland and Northern Ireland’. This report examines Early Childhood Care and Education (ECEC) policies in Ireland and Northern Ireland. It compares patterns of participation in ECEC among pre-school children in the two jurisdictions and draws on

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Early Childhood Ireland Policy Brief
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Policy Brief – Finland’s National Child Strategy

In 2021, Finland published its National Child Strategy, setting out its ambitious objectives and vision in an accessible document. The need for a National Child Strategy has been brought up during the terms of office of several different governments. The National Child Strategy aims to create a child and family friendly Finland where the rights

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