HSE project to assist parents with pre-schools

PARENTS will be better able to vet the pre-school facilities they choose for their children following completion of a Health Service Executive (HSE) review next month.

The Pre-school Standardisation Project aims to provide the public with more information about their local pre-school services by setting out the kind of details that must be collected by inspectors and how they should be reported.

Minister for Children, Brian Lenihan, said yesterday the HSE had told him work on the project was at an advanced stage and it was due to be completed by the end of this year.