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# Childcare

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Antigen testing programme to be rolled out for early learning and childcare services from tomorrow
Childcare providers hold Dáil protest over children 'falling through the cracks'
Fine Gael sets out major new childcare policies
Poll: How do you think the State should fix issues with accessing childcare?
'I have no idea who will mind my children': Readers' stories of Ireland's childcare crisis
Have you faced difficulties finding childcare for your young child? We want to hear your story
Call for increased investment in early years childcare sector, especially for under threes
Opinion: 'Formal childcare for small babies in Dublin is a fiction. It effectively does not exist'
Unicef: Ireland one of the most expensive countries for childcare as half of salary is average cost
Opinion: Without a public childcare model there can be no equality for women
'Your mammy brain and working woman brain should not be in the same room': Work and childcare after Covid
Report on pay levels in childcare sector to be finalised in coming days
Opinion: Childcare providers are still no clearer on the government's long-term plans
Deal struck with Government to provide funding for childcare services for essential workers
Childcare services to remain open but only for vulnerable groups and children of essential workers
Explainer: What childcare options are available in Level 5 and who gets priority?
Review finds that the average cost of delivering childcare across all services in Ireland is €4.14 per hour
Opinion: Foster care is in trouble in Ireland and its privatisation is not the answer
‘Children's needs should be the priority for after-school services’
‘Without state interventions many childcare providers will go out of business’
‘Time to radically reform childcare and break the tension between fees and quality’
‘We are essentially paying out a second mortgage in childcare every month’
Opinion: Maternity leave in lockdown was no picnic, so please don't forget new parents
Hundreds of childcare providers say they won't be able to stay open without more government supports
As a creche owner, I had butterflies on Monday, but we're getting there
'It's been a long 16 weeks': Anticipation tinged with nerves as creches prepare to re-open
'An absolute scandal': Ireland has the highest Covid infection rate for healthcare workers in the world, committee told
Childcare providers warn of reduced capacity and need for longterm financial support
Childcare providers to tell TDs uncertainty is having 'profoundly stressful impact'
State grants will ensure childcare providers should have no reason to increase fees, says minister
Childcare crisis: 'I looked at my 14-year-old and asked 'Will you manage babysitting the others?''
People will rely on family and friends for a ‘dig out’ until creches reopen, says minister
'Play-pods' of up to 12 children to be introduced in creches as they reopen from 29 June
The government's Covid-19 childcare plans, while noble, will not benefit children
Varadkar 'increasingly confident' Phase One of lifting restrictions will begin on Monday
Childcare for healthcare workers - how a promised scheme failed to materialse
'Shambolic': Government told to 'go back to the drawing board' over failed childcare scheme for healthcare workers
Childcare scheme for healthcare workers scrapped after only six providers apply
No insurance cover for childcare providers that take part in government scheme, warns broker
Healthcare workers to pay €90 for childcare each week under latest government plan