Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 22 January 2025
1214. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when all available parent statements dating back to programme year 2022-2023 will be made available online, in respect of each service provider signed up to core funding. [1163/25]
View answerI would like to thank the Deputy for raising the question regarding the publishing of the Parent Statements for Partner Services.
Parents can access Parent Statements for the current programme year through the Childcare Search on the NCS website. Early Learning and Childcare providers provide parents with a copy of their Parents Statement as part of the child registration process. Parents can request copies of Parent Statements for previous years from their provider.
Also available on the Childcare Search on the NCS Website are Early Learning and Childcare provider fees lists tables for current and previous programme years, which give parents the ability to track and compare fees year on year. The fees list tables include which schemes the service has contracted to and whether the service is a partner service under Core Funding. They also include details of session costs, full or part time costs where applicable and any fee extras such as after-school clubs, deposits and any relevant discounts for multiple children dependent on the service offerings. The fees lists are downloadable to pdf format.
