An increase in State subsidies has led to an increase in demand, and creche owners say it is increasingly hard to find and keep staff
“Before the new funding came we had talked about closing our baby room because we weren’t getting the numbers,” she says. “Now, we have a waiting list to the end of next year for the baby room. We’ve been inundated with people. I’d love to be able to fit more in but, you know, staff...”
Among the supports Missus Tatty’s receives is around €110,000 annually in what is called core funding, money intended to cover a variety of costs. There are also payments under the National Childcare Scheme, recent improvements to which have resulted in almost doubling, to 134,000, in the number of children impacted at around 4,300 facilities nationally.
The most vocal of the representative bodies, the Federation of Early Childhood Providers, said again last week that many are under financial threat as the current funding system is not working. “I think maybe they [the Government] slightly overestimated what was needed but the money did mean the services had a buffer, which has made the implementation of the new core funding slightly more palatable. But that goodwill is going to run out.
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