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Support services for victims of sexual, domestic and gender based violence are to receive €22.1m in funding for the current year, according to the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs...

I am very pleased to meet the Committee this morning to discuss the Affordable Childcare Scheme, before we begin the process of drafting...

The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Katherine Zappone TD, is delighted to announce that funding has been made available to provide a bursary to certain childcare staff...

Author, Journalist and Activist Una Mullally has been appointed as Independent Chair of the group to oversee the first ever National LGBT Youth Strategy by the Minister for Children and...

Children aged 0-5 years whose parents are homeless are to be offered free childcare for 25-hours a week under a change to the Community Childcare Subvention scheme announced...

Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Dr. Katherine Zappone, T.D., and Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality David Stanton, T.D., today jointly published a progress report on ‘Tackling Youth Crime'...

The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs hosted an Open Policy Debate on`the National Early Years Strategy, at Iveagh House in Dublin on Wednesday...

A new report which provides an overview of the 4,300 facilities providing childcare services across Ireland shows that between September 2015 and June 2016, 73,964 children enrolled in the Early Childhood Care...

Thank you for you kind welcome and for presenting the findings of ‘Including Young Travellers’. While there are many parts of the research to welcome there are others which raise a serious question...

The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Dr Katherine Zappone T.D., believes that young people on both sides of the Irish Sea must be given an...