Report calls for more state subsidies to help secure sustainable childcare system

A report calling for greater state subsidisation of childcare to relieve parents of the burden of an “extra mortgage” and to ensure the sector is sustainable for childcare providers has been broadly welcomed.
Report calls for more state subsidies to help secure sustainable childcare system

The recommendation is one of 13 contained in a report on Affordable and Quality Childcare by the joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children, published yesterday.

A need to address pay and conditions of those working in the sector was also identified, as well as the regulation of all paid non-relative childminders, regardless of the number of children they have in their care.

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