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Ireland - Early childhood care and education

Ministries, Institutions

Ireland
The Department is involved in the provision of education at the following levels: pre-school, primary school, post-primary school, universities and third level colleges, adult education and further education.

Ireland
The Department of Health and Children's statutory role is to support the Minister in the formulation and evaluation of policies for the health services. One of the divisions is the Child Care and National Children's Office. Information on social services nurseries from birth to four years, on childcare acts and further legislation. [...]

Ireland
Main task of the 2001 established National Qualifications Authority was to develop the National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ), which was launched in October 2003. It signals significant progress in the creation of a single, coherent, more easily understood qualifications system for all levels of education and training in this [...]

Die 1969 gegründete IPPA, ist eine irlandweite Organisation, die Eltern und Anbieter von vorschulischen Angeboten in Betreuung, Erziehung und Bildung von Kindern unterstüzt. Dazu gehören Spielkreise, Krippen, Kindertagesbetreuung und nachschulische Betreuung. Auf der Website Informationen zum -Quality Improvement Program-, der Bedeutung des Spielens in der Kindheit sowie zu [...]

Ireland
Early Childhood Ireland (ECI) was created in 2012 by merging two organisations: the Irish Preschool Play Association (IPPA) and the National Children’s Nurseries Associations (NCNA). This made ECI the largest membership organisation in the sector of early childhood education. Membership extends not only to persons working in this [...]

National strategies, curriculum

Ireland
The White Paper is published by the Irish Department of Education. It "focuses on children from birth to six years. It covers the whole spectrum of educational needs: the development of very young children in the home, supports to parents concerning how best to help their children to learn, a wide range of supports for private [...]

Im Rahmen des ´´Partnership 2000´´ Programmes wurde in Irland die ExpertInnengruppe ´´The Expert Working Group´´ gegründet. Sie sollte eine Strategie entwickeln, die die unterschiedlichen bisherigen Angebote der Kinderbetreuung und vorschulischen Erziehung integrierend zusammenfügt. Der vorliegende Bericht stellt diese Strategie vor.

Legal regulations

Auf dieser Seite werden rechtliche Regelungen zur Kindertagebetreuung sowie zur vorschulischen Bildung und Erziehung in Irland vorgestellt (auf englisch). Zugang zu zentralen Dokumenten, z.B. Child Care Act (1991) sowie Child Care Pre-School Services, Regulations 1996 and (Amendment) 1997 sowie zu weiteren rechtlichen Regelungen.

Expert contributions

The Country Note for Ireland is the outcome of an intensive review of early childhood policies and services in Ireland by an OECD review team for five days in November 2002. Chapter 1 of the report outlines the framework of OECD early childhood education and care (ECEC) reviews. Chapter 2 presents an overview of the early childhood education and care system in Ireland.Chapter [...]

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