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Offaly County Childcare Committee is located at St Joseph's Community Centre in Kilcormac, Co Offaly.
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Dear Service Provider,
The Early Years Hive and the National Childcare Scheme website will be unavailable today at 5pm for a maximum of 2 hours due to scheduled maintenance.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your cooperation.
Thank you,
Early Years Team
Dear Service Provider,
The application process for the Capital 2021 Fire Safety Grant will close at 6pm, Friday 26th February.
We encourage any service that wishes to apply or who has an application in draft to complete and submit their application as soon as possible.
Application guidelines can be found below and are also under ‘ELC and SAC Capital Programme 2021’ on the Useful Links page of the Early Years Hive:
Should you have any queries in relation to the information outlined above please contact the Early Years Provider Centre by raising a Request on Hive and selecting the following category:
PLEASE NOTE: If you contact Pobal with an ICT issue within 48 hours of the closing date and time Pobal cannot guarantee that your ICT issue will be resolved in time for you to submit your application.
Thank you,
Early Years Team
Dear Provider,
We are writing to you this afternoon to provide you with the new FAQ document covering the period March 8th to March 29th. These FAQs reflect the announcement made by the Minister yesterday evening with regard to the gradual lifting of restrictions on delivery of early learning and childcare services from 8th March.
Kind regards
Early Years Comms Team
Talking Buddies is a Slaintecare funded initiative from the Speech and Language Therapy Department in Laois and Offaly. They are launching their project tomorrow (February 25th, 2021) to
coincide with Libraries Ireland National Ireland Reads Day, #squeeze in a read. Their key messages include ‘Read to your child everyday’, ‘How to get the most out of books’ and ‘It’s never too early to start reading to your baby’.
They have just published their website www.talkingbuddies.ie. On the website they have lots of FREE resources such as videos, leaflets, and posters and they will continue to add to this. Also you can check them out on Facebook, Instagram and on Twitter.
To celebrate the launch tomorrow they are running some competitions on social media so like and follow them to be in with a chance to win some fabulous prizes!
We would like to remind all services that the funding agreement for ELC/SAC funding measures convering the period 1 February - 5 March is currently available on the
Early Years Hive until close of business on Friday, 26th February 2021.
Please review the below important information in relation to the Covid-19 Operating Supports
Application and funding agreement process
There are two steps services must successfully complete in this process. If your service has completed only one of the below steps, the process is incomplete and requires action.
See the Technical Guidelines for further assistance with completing the application process. This document is available under the Funding Measures heading on Useful Links.
Important: An application cannot be amended once it has been submitted. Please ensure that all information is correct before submitting.
Help and support
Please see the Funding Measures heading on the Useful Links page on the early Years Hive for guidance.
Should you have any queries in relation to the Covid-19 Operating Supports outlined above please contact the Early Years Provider Centre by raising a Request on Hive and selecting the following categories:
Offaly County Childcare Committee support the development of quality, affordable, inclusive, accessible childcare and family friendly services for all children in every part of the county.
Offaly County Childcare Committee has been meeting since May 2001 and is made up of representatives from the statutory sector, social partners, community groups, voluntary groups, the Community and Voluntary Forum, National Voluntary Children's Organisations, providers of childcare, and parents - all of whom have a vested interest in childcare provision in the county.
