Events

The Chair of Longford County Childcare Committee, Louise Lovett, would like to extend an invitation to all owners, providers and managers of early years services in Longford to attend a Consultation Meeting on issues affecting the sector. This will be held in Longford Womens Link on June 29^th from 10-12am.

In this meeting it is hoped to highlight the specific challenges facing the sector in Longford from September in addition to highlighting the existing lack of available places.

If each manager could come with the following information

• Intention to engage with government schemes in September and expected Income gap (if any) from September, October etc.
• Proposed future actions to ensure sustainability of the service i.e. reduce hours, close a room etc.
• Impact of action on available places and/or on numbers of employees
• Rates Charge and proposed action if applicable i.e. move to ECCE only

Each manager will have the opportunity to speak and provide this information, and it will be collated as the meeting progresses. The aim is to hear from every service in the county and to develop a unified County wide position that can be used to highlight the real concrete issues which will then be sent to the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, Minister Katherine Zappone etc. We plan to invite Shannonside Radio, the Longford Leader and CCC Chairs from the Region also a number of local Deputies.

Longford County Childcare Committee invite you to attend a series of workshops on “Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Charter and Guidelines for Early Childhood Care and Education.” These sessions will assist your service to explore your concepts on Equality and Diversity, and how you create a safe, inclusive learning environment. We will also assist your service with  developing your Inclusion Policy in these sessions. This will meet your contract requirements for September 2017.

There is a total of 15 hours and attendance at all workshops is a requirement.

Dates for these workshops will be:

Thursday 29th June   12.30-5pm

Thursday  6th July     10am-1pm

Thursday 13th July    10am-1pm

Tuesday 18th July    10am-1pm