40% of childcare providers not signed up for scheme

More than 40% of the country’s childcare providers have not signed up to the new affordable childcare scheme meaning tens of thousands of children could miss out on the support.

Parents face the heart-ache of being forced to move their children to another creche or could miss out on the new grants completely if they cannot find a childcare provider that has signed up to the Government scheme.

With creches and childcare facilities due to begin the roll-out of the scheme from next week, just 2,626 of the 4,484 early years services registered with Tusla have signed up.