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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (28 Mar 2017)

Katherine Zappone: ...for newly-registering preschool services on 30 June 2016, and for existing services on 31 December 2016, require all staff working directly with children to have at least a major award at level 5 on the national qualifications framework in early childhood care and education or a qualification deemed by the Minister to be equivalent. As the Deputy will be aware, this regulation has been...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Staff (28 Mar 2017)

Katherine Zappone: I propose to take Questions Nos. 40, 45 and 63 together. It is my understanding that the Deputy is referring to the the Child Care Act 1991 (Early Years Services) Regulations 2016 which require that all staff members working directly with children in pre-school services must hold at least a major award in early childhood care and education at level 5 on the National Qualifications...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Staff (28 Mar 2017)

Katherine Zappone: ...Services) Regulations 2016 which require that all staff members working directly with children in pre-school services must hold at least a major award in early childhood care and education at level 5 on the National Qualifications Framework, or a qualification deemed by the Minister to be equivalent. This requirement came into effect for newly-registering services on 30th June 2016 and...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (21 Mar 2017)

Katherine Zappone: ...Programme (PEIP) (2007-2013) in which three sites participated: Youngballymun, Preparing For Life (Dublin Northside), and the Childhood Development Initiative Tallaght. Youngballymun received €15 million as a participant in the Prevention and Early Intervention Programme. The total original funding for Youngballymun under the ABC programme was €5 million bringing the total...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (7 Mar 2017)

Katherine Zappone: ...thresholdensures that some level of subsidy is awarded to all low income families making use of regulated childcare, through including all families within the bottom five income deciles (that is, 50% of the population). It also includes the very large majority of current scheme beneficiaries, while “saver” provisions will ensure that any current beneficiaries with higher...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Data (22 Feb 2017)

Katherine Zappone: I propose to take Questions Nos. 265 to 269, inclusive, together. When introduced, the ECCE scheme provided free-preschool for 38 weeks of the year, the 38 weeks broadly mirrored the primary school academic year. When ECCE was expanded as a result of Budget 2016, it enabled all children to attend ECCE from the age of three, entering at one of three entry points after their third...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (14 Feb 2017)

Katherine Zappone: ...providing this care have been impacted by the full implementation of the Child Care Act 1991 (Early Years Services) Regulations 2016, which requires that all staff should hold a minimum FETAC level 5 qualification when working directly with children. In several cases, services have been utilising staff working on community employment, CE, schemes to count towards their required ratios....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (14 Feb 2017)

Katherine Zappone: The latest figures from Tusla, indicates that, at the end of November 2016, there were 6,276 children in care. Of these, 5,839 (93%) were in foster care, either with relatives or a general foster care placement and 325 (5%) were in a residential placement. All of the children in residential care had an allocated social worker and 94% of all children in Foster care had an allocated social...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Residential Institutions (25 Jan 2017)

Katherine Zappone: ...state body and aims to get Survivors access to the services they require to enhance their health and well-being. The Caranua fund comes from religious congregations who committed €110 million for Survivors of institutional abuse. The HSE also provides counselling services for survivors of institutional abuse. Its National Counselling Service (NCS) is a professional, confidential...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Staff (14 Dec 2016)

Katherine Zappone: ...my Department does not act as employer to childcare it does acknowledge that the sector is under cost pressure. To go some way towards addressing this, I have secured additional funding of €14 million in Budget 2017 which will enable ECCE providers to be paid for a 39th week and part of a 40th week (7 ECCE days in total or 1.4 ECCE weeks) where they will have no children present...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Staff (29 Nov 2016)

Katherine Zappone: ...it does acknowledge that the sector is under cost pressure, and that staff wages are a large component of cost. To go some way towards addressing this, I have secured additional funding of €14 million in Budget 2017 which will enable ECCE providers to be paid for a 39th week and part of a 40th week (7 ECCE days in total or 1.4 ECCE weeks) where they will have no children present...

Seanad: Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (18 Oct 2016)

Katherine Zappone: ...we to approach the budgetary provision for the investment in child care and early years learning in a manner approaching the average of OECD countries, Ireland would need to invest at least €100 million over the next five years. This year, coming into the 2017 budget, the provision was €121 million so I would need to get at least that much - if not more - for 2018. As we...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (27 Sep 2016)

Katherine Zappone: ...childcare is very hard to forecast as the measure would have a major impact on childcare usage. The scale of this impact is very hard to predict. The fact that the take-up of the ECCE scheme is 95% indicates that a very large proportion of families who do not currently use non-parental childcare might take up the offer of free childcare. In addition, the hours of childcare used each week...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Strategy Implementation (21 Jul 2016)

Katherine Zappone: ...permitted to work as ECCE room leaders under the ECCE contract. To support staff to meet the new qualification requirements, my Department established the Learner Fund which has already allocated €3.5 million to over 3,000 staff for the purpose of upskilling. My Department is continuing to support up-skilling in the sector and is working with community childcare facilities to...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (21 Jul 2016)

Katherine Zappone: ...progressed was the introduction of a requirement that all staff working with children in early years services should hold a qualification in early childhood care and education at a minimum of Level 5 on the National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) or equivalent. Under new Childcare Regulations, the level 5 requirement came into effect as of 30 June 2016 for newly-registering services...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (21 Jul 2016)

Katherine Zappone: Funding of €1.5m was allocated for Learner Fund 4 in Budget 2016 to support up to 1,000 early years practitioners to undertake and complete the Level 6 qualification, which is a requirement for pre-school leaders delivering the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Programme. As of July 20th, funding of €548,760.00 has been approved, and €181,090.80 has been...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Katherine Zappone: ...of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. Two main components of this programme are Tusla and the Irish Youth Justice Service. The funding for subhead A3, Tusla in 2016 amounts to €676.042 million, comprising €662.482 million in current funding and €13.560 million in capital funding. This capital sum is, as I said earlier, being supplemented by a further €2.5...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Katherine Zappone: ...in terms of Tusla, child welfare and protection, the concern about unallocated social workers, and the recruitment of social workers to help meet that concern. Additional funding of €6.1 million has been provided in 2016 to deal with this issue. Tusla's target is to reduce by 60% the number of cases awaiting allocation. In terms of reducing the number of cases awaiting...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Katherine Zappone: ...is that every child from the age of three years should have a place until he or she starts school should he or she wish to avail of it. It is anticipated that every child will get a minimum of 51 weeks and some will get as much as 88 weeks. On average, each child will get 61 weeks in total, depending on his or her date of birth and age at which he or she starts school. As Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Education and Training Scheme (22 Jun 2016)

Katherine Zappone: ...progressed was the introduction of a requirement that all staff working with children in early years services should hold a qualification in early childhood care and education at a minimum of Level 5 on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) or equivalent and that pre-school leaders in ECCE services would be required to hold a minimum Level 6 qualification, or equivalent. These...