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27/03/2014
Affordable Childcare Plan Published
A £15m grant scheme has been allocated for the creation of some 6,000 new childcare places across rural areas, areas of disadvantage and within schools, the Northern Ireland Executive has announced.
Up to 750 new jobs are also expected to be created within the childcare sector with the introduction of the grant scheme.
The NI Executive's Programme for Affordable and Integrated Childcare report lays out a number of 'key first actions', including:
• 3,000 affordable and integrated child care places supported and created
through social enterprise.
• 2,000 affordable and child care places within the schools estate.
• A rural childminder start-up creating up to 1,000 childcare places and roll out of a enterprise model in rural areas creating, potentially, an
additional 1,000 school aged childcare places.
• A programme of better of information.
• Enhancing skills base of the childcare workforce.
The document can be read in full on the NI Executive website.
(MH/JP)
Up to 750 new jobs are also expected to be created within the childcare sector with the introduction of the grant scheme.
The NI Executive's Programme for Affordable and Integrated Childcare report lays out a number of 'key first actions', including:
• 3,000 affordable and integrated child care places supported and created
through social enterprise.
• 2,000 affordable and child care places within the schools estate.
• A rural childminder start-up creating up to 1,000 childcare places and roll out of a enterprise model in rural areas creating, potentially, an
additional 1,000 school aged childcare places.
• A programme of better of information.
• Enhancing skills base of the childcare workforce.
The document can be read in full on the NI Executive website.
(MH/JP)
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