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THE COST OF full-time childcare has increased by more than €7 to €174.16 according to the Early Years Sector Profile Report.
The report, which was developed and published by Pobal, states that nationally, the cost of a full-time childcare place has increased after five years of fees remaining the same.
In total there are estimated to be over 186,000 children attending early years services across Ireland. Fees are more expensive in affluent areas, in cities, and in private facilities.
The report also gives a breakdown of the early years sector profile in each county across the country.
The number of children availing of government-funded childcare places increased by 41% to over 147,000 in the last 12 months.
Qualifications
The childcare sector employs over 27,000 staff, almost 24,000 of whom work with children.
The report also found that the average qualification level of childcare staff has increased.
Half of all childcare staff work part-time, while two in five work seasonal contracts. On average, childcare staff earn €11.93 per hour; half of these consisting of early years assistants earning an average of €10.88 per hour. The staff turnover rate in the last 12 months was 28.2%.
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Dr Katherine Zappone thanked Pobal for their work. “This report adds to the growing body of evidence needed to target increased investment in early years.
It provides insights on other important policy priorities, like affordability, sustainability and quality, and will be critical in guiding this rapidly expanding sector in future years.
Denis Leamy, Pobal CEO added, “The Early Years Sector Profile, which Pobal has published for the last 15 years, is a definitive source of accurate and factual information on the sector and I would like to thank the childcare services that gave their time to respond to the survey.”
The report is based on survey responses from 3,707 services (84% of all childcare facilities) in May 2017 and information from the childcare ICT system (PIP).
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If I were the iranian delegation I wouldn’t give an inch until the talks become all inclusive. How is it that Israel, the greatest threat to regional and world peace, has a carte blanche to develop and maintain a nuclear arsenal and Iran can’t even develop a civilian nuclear programme.
because Israel are big allies with the US
i think he knows that aaron,it was more rhetorical !!
Nothing Controversial about their ‘Nuclear’ ambitions, Pakistan have nukes (I’d be far more concerned here but they are (were) a former ally of Uncle Sam and no threat to Israel) India have Nuclear arms, Israel have nuclear arms so why not Iran?
I don’t see how increasing the amount of countries with nuclear arms can be a good thing whatever their motive.
If they want nuclear power all well and good but do we really want a world where this kind of thing is not carefully controlled and policed?
Over 2,000 nuclear bombs have been detonated to date by countries such such as the US, France, UK etc. Why is it that they are allowed to keep their nuclear weapons?They have shown themselves to be irresponsible. Iran has repeatedly said it will not go after nuclear weapons and it has not detonated a single one.
There are persistent reports of late of Pakistan helping Saudi Arabia to acquire nuclear weapons. There is no mention of this in the corporate media. Let’s also bear in mind that the US actively helped Pakistan acquire nuclear weapons and turned a blind eye to Pakistan to helping North Korea with its nuclear weapons programme. So there are precedents.
There have been many proposals to date which the US gave repeatedly rejected to have all of the Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction but the US has repeatedly stood by Israel.
Let’s have a little objectivity in the reporting.
Well said Horgay. As for increasing the number of nuclear weapons, no one even suggested that. Iran is playing brinkmanship, hoping to get a level playing field, one based on a nuclear free middle esst. Good for them, at least someone in the region is being pragmatic.
As long as the AIPAC is still a strong voice in congress agreement will be very hard to reach.
They know no nuclear nation has ever been invaded by another. Yet the don’t speak about Israeli bombs and the disregard to international treaties and law it consistently shows
It means nothing to me!
Obviously not fans of vltravox.
have your say