Childcare grants

Fingal County Childcare Committee (FCCC) has been acting in an advisory role for all childcare services throughout the Fingal area for the past seven years. In this capacity, FCCC has been providing advice, information and assistance on a wide variety of topics in the childcare field.

The committee is now offering advice to all local childcare providers who wish to apply for funding support under the government’s National Childcare Investment Programme (NCIP) 2006-2010. Under this programme a range of grants are available to private providers, community providers and childminders who will contribute to the development of new childcare places or quality improvement work for their services.

Three categories of grant aid are available ranging from capital grants of €1.2m for community childcare services to €100,000 for private childcare services and €5,000 per child for childminding services.

According to Michelle Butler of the Fingal County Childcare Committee “we would like to invite those seeking support in accessing the Childcare Investment Programme funding to contact us. Our staff will discuss the application process and assist you in completing application forms and provide any additional advice on the grants where required.

Michelle was also anxious to stress that “the deadline for submission of applications is Friday 16th May 2008 and if you do not submit your application in time it will be May 2009 before it can be submitted again.”

Anyone interested in applying should immediately contact the Fingal County Childcare Committee (tel. 01 8077660).

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