• 621 early learning and childcare settings have accepted the Equal Start priority designation to date.
• These settings been objectively identified as operating in the context of the highest levels of concentrated disadvantage.
• More settings expected to accept the Equal Start Priority Designation in the coming weeks.
Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman has published the first group of early learning and childcare settings to receive a funding boost through the Equal Start scheme.
Equal Start, launched earlier this year, is a new, DEIS-style funding model. It provides a set of universal and targeted measures to support access to, and full participation in, early learning and childcare for children and their families who experience disadvantage.
Read the full press release here: https://bit.ly/4eA4SFW
