Childcare subsidies may extend to minders in home

Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone’s childcare subsidies could be extended to thousands of childminders after a working group on regulating childminders puts forward its proposals.

CEO of Childminding Ireland, Bernadette Burke, has been asked to head up a working group that must report before May on reforming, inspecting, and supporting the informal childminding sector.

There was uproar that parents who choose to use childminders cannot avail of planned new childcare subsidies.