Tag: Children

Early Childhood Ireland Policy Brief
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Policy Brief: An Early Years Guarantee for the UK?

In this week’s Policy Brief, we take a look at an article that argues that the UK government should introduce an Early Years guarantee. As part of their Changing Childcare series, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation recently published “Reimagining early years through childcare guarantee” by Rachel Statham, the Associate Director for Work and Welfare State at

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Early Childhood Ireland Policy Brief
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Policy brief: Early Years developments in the UK

Last week, in his Budget 2023 statement, Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK, talked about how he wanted to reform the Early Years and School Age Care sector as it was damaging the economy. He announced that parents of children aged nine months to three years will be offered 30 hours

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Early Childhood Ireland Policy Brief
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Policy brief: State of Nation’s Children report

In December 2022, the Government published the latest instalment of the State of the Nation’s Children (SONC) report. This report provides a comprehensive picture of the lives of children in Ireland, including key information on children’s health, behavioural and educational outcomes, and their relationships with their parents and their friends. SONC is widely used as

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