Dear Service Provider,
The dates of the first preliminary payments for the Childcare Subvention Plus (CCSP) Saver Programme and ECCE for the 2024/2025 programme call, and the dates the funding agreements must have been activated by to be included in the payments, are listed below:
| Programme | Funding Agreement activation date | Prelim payment date |
| CCSP | 2 August 2024 | 9 August 2024 |
| ECCE | 9 August 2024 | 16 August 2024 |
Funding agreements activated after the above dates continue to be eligible for preliminary payments and will be included in subsequent payment runs.
CCSP Saver Programme payments
- Preliminary payments for CCSP 2024 will be made on 9 and 16 August.
- Payments from 23 August onwards will be based on approved registrations for the CCSP programme year 2024.
- Over-payments in CCSP 2023 will be deducted from preliminary payments.
- To qualify for the CCSP 2024 preliminary payment, a service must have 6 or more approved CCSP 2024 registrations, with attendance on or after 1 July 2024. Payment will be based on approved registration values between 3 and 10 June (i.e. the payment is for 2 weeks).
CCSP 2024 will commence on Monday 12 August 2024. Registrations for CCSP 2024 open on Monday 5 August.
Please ensure that your service calendar is up to date and correct in advance of the programme call start dates. Service calendars cannot be retrospectively amended on the Early Years Hive.
ECCE payments
- Preliminary payments for ECCE 2024 will be made on 16, 23, and 30 August.
- No preliminary payments will be made the week ending 6 September.
- Over-payments in ECCE 2023 will be deducted from preliminary payments.
- Payments based on approved registrations will commence in week ending 13 September 2024.
- AIM Level 1 allocations will be included in the ECCE payment on 13 September 2024 onward.
- The ECCE 2024 preliminary payment will be based on approved ECCE 2023 registrations (FTE) in the sample week beginning 27 November 2023 (the payment is for 4 weeks at this rate).
ECCE 2024 will commence on Monday 19 August 2024. Registrations for ECCE 2024 opened on Monday 1 July.
Please ensure that your service calendar is up to date and correct in advance of the programme call start dates. Service calendars cannot be retrospectively amended on the Early Years Hive.
Preliminary payment details
- Services will not receive more than one preliminary payment.
- Payments will be made to the existing bank account associated with the service/programme on the Early Years Hive.
Back-dating registrations
The latest date a service can register a child for ECCE is 6 weeks after the child’s start date.
The latest date a service can register a child for the CCSP Saver Programme is 4 weeks after the date the service opens for the new programme year.
In the case of late registrations, all proofs of children’s start dates and attendance must be submitted to Pobal, or the registration may be declined.
DCEDIY reserves the right not to backdate funding on any late registrations, i.e. more than 6 weeks after the child’s start date.
Payment schedules
Payment schedules for CCSP 2024 and ECCE 2024 are available on the following pages:
Where the preliminary payment already made is more than the amount due to you, based on your approved registrations, subsequent payments will be adjusted for reconciliation purposes.
AIM Payments
AIM Level 7 payments for the 2024/2025 programme will commence on 16 August 2024. Payments are made one week in advance and weekly thereafter.
To ensure the effective processing of AIM Level 7 2024 payments, you must ensure the child(ren) who have been approved AIM Level 7 2024 support are registered on the ECCE 2024 programme in an ECCE-registered pre-school service or are eligible to avail of the ECCE 2024 programme and are registered and approved on CCSP 2024.
Regards,
The Early Years Team