Scéalta – The Early Childhood Ireland Blog
Scéalta – The Early Childhood Ireland Blog
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QualFDC (Enhancing Quality in Family Day Care)
Fiona Kelleher from Early Childhood Ireland outlines a new EU project focusing on Family Day Care/ Childminding. She outlines how the countries involved build relationships and share policy and practice ideas, to support quality for children. Early Childhood Ireland looks forward to engaging with Childminders in Ireland, both on this project and others in the future.
St Patrick’s Day for all
As we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day this week, Máire Corbett from Early Childhood Ireland reflects on why and how we need to be aware and include the national holidays of all families in our settings throughout the year.
Nurturing emotional development in babies
In this weeks Scealta, Kathleen Tuite, Early Childhood Ireland, continues to discuss the topic of supporting babies emotional development, by offering practice tips on nurturing emotional development in babies and young children.
Supporting babies’ emotional development
In this week’s Scéalta, Kathleen Tuite, Early Childhood Ireland, reflects on the importance of cherishing babies and young children and discusses how critical it is to support their emotional development. This is the first of two posts on nurturing positive emotional development in young children.
Cherish parents
This weeks Scéalta, written by Máire Corbett from Early Childhood Ireland, is prompted by John Bowlby’s assertion that if we value children, we must cherish their parents. Máire connects this idea to a recent Scéalta post about the impact transitions can have on parents and outlines some thoughts on how settings can and do cherish parents.
Quality Action Plan…what is it?
In our Scéalta blog this week Helen Carey and Vivienne Murtagh from the Early Childhood Ireland EYES team provide information about the Quality Action Plan required as part of Core Funding. This is timely as we move closer to the review and amend window due to take place in quarter one of 2023. This will provide an opportunity for those that need to amend or update their Quality Action Plan actions.
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