links to state & voluntary childcare organisations

Government Bodies
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• Department of Children and Youth Affairs

The Department of Children and Youth Affairs focuses on harmonising policy issues that affect children in areas such as early childhood care and education, youth justice, child welfare and protection, children and young people's participation, research on children and young people, youth work and cross-cutting initiatives for children.
http://www.dcya.gov.ie

• Pobal 

is an intermediary that works on behalf of Government to support communities and local agencies toward achieving social inclusion, reconciliation and equality. Pobal is a not-for-profit company with charitable status that manages programmes on behalf of the Irish Government and the EU.
www.pobal.ie

• County Childcare Committees

City and County Childcare Committees were established under the Office of the Minister for Children to offer services to parents, providing information on local childcare facilities, créches or information on parent networks.
http://www.earlychildhoodireland.ie/advocacy-research-and-campaigns/links/

• Síolta

the National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education.
http://www.siolta.ie

National Voluntary Childcare Organisations​​

• Forbairt Naíonraí Teoranta
• Barnardos
• Childminding Ireland
• Children in Hospital
• Early Childhood Ireland
• ISPCC
• Nat. Voluntary Childcare Collaborative
• St. Nicholas Montessori College