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About Us
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Frances Fitzgerald TD, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs
Childcare
- What we do
- Free Pre-School year in Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Programme
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Child and Family Agency
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Children First - Child Protection Guidance
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- Gaisce - The President's Award Scheme
Play and Recreation
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- Child Poverty Initiative Seminar
Policy and Strategy Development
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Growing Up in Ireland
National Research and Data Strategy
- Background to the Strategy
- Action Plan Updates
- Inventory of Data Sources
Children's Database
Early Years Education Policy Unit
Funding Opportunities

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What we do

The Early Years Education Policy Unit is co-located with the Office of the Minister for Children (OMC) and the Department of Education and Science.

The Unit has responsibility for the following functions:

Developing a childcare training strategy to meet the target of providing 17,000 childcare training places by 2010;
Implementing the recommendations of the Traveller Education Strategy in moving towards integrated provision for Traveller pre-schools;
Implementing the DEIS (Delivering Equality of opportunity in Schools) action plan for early childhood education for designated disadvantaged areas.

Contact details for Early Years Education Policy Unit

E-mail: Maria Sheehan
Tel: 01 674 3228

E-mail: Tim O'Keefe
Tel: 01 674 3227

E-mail: Catherine Hynes
Tel: 01 674 3225

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