0-6.ie is a blog from Start Strong. We have started this blog to stimulate debate about Government policies on services and supports for young children and their families in Ireland. It’s about policies for children from 0 to 6 years old.
The aim of the blog is to provoke discussion and the sharing of ideas. Agree with us? Disagree with us? We want you to join the debate! Please add your comment on any of the blog posts. We moderate all comments, but we aim to publish most comments immediately and to ensure a free flow of conversation (see our moderation policy).
Some blog posts will be written by Start Strong, others by guest contributors. While guest contributors are broadly sympathetic to Start Strong’s aims, we encourage the contribution of posts that raise questions about any of the policy areas we are concerned with. If you would like to contribute a post yourself, please email us.
Topics this blog will explore include:
- Quality in early care and education services
- Supports for parents
- The Free Pre-School Year
- Professionalisation of the early years workforce
- Childminding
- Child poverty
- Regulation and inspection
- Diversity and equality
- The Community Childcare Subvention scheme
- Men in childcare
- The integration of childcare and early education
- Comparisons of Ireland and other countries
- Prevention and early intervention
- Maternity, paternity and parental leave
- Training
- And more
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