Kildare County Childcare Committee

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12/12/2025

📚Nurturing Skills Learning Hub📚
The Learning Hub provides resources and information on Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for Early Years Educators, School-Age Childcare (SAC) Practitioners and childminders and offers a diverse range of eLearning programmes to support you to further develop your professional knowledge, skills and practice.

Access the Learning Hub here: https://www.nurturingskills.ie/nurturing-skills-hub/

12/12/2025

Please follow the link below to access your How to complete an AIM L7 R&C guide: https://share.google/KZ9PpMCOb1KOQTYVh

11/12/2025

********** JOBS BOARD ***********
🟢Attention all Childcare and Education Professionals, check new vacancies across Kildare! https://www.kccc.ie/News/ID/1647
🍃Service Providers, do you wish to advertise your vacancy? Please fill in this form to have your vacancy advertised for free: https://forms.gle/ufHwwYTn8UxokCZh6

11/12/2025

💜The Role of the Inclusion Coordinator💜

We have recently noticed that a number of outdated versions of the ‘Role of the Inclusion Coordinator (INCO)’ posters are appearing online through different websites. To ensure the most up to date information is available to services, we are sharing the latest versions of the INCO posters in both Irish and English.

Please email [email protected] to request Irish or English pdf versions of the poster below

11/12/2025

Celebrating different cultures during Christmas is a lovely opportunity to create an inclusive environment where all children feel valued and respected. Educators play an important role in supporting this sense of belonging by honouring the diverse cultural backgrounds within their communities.🎅

Explore this helpful Tip Sheet created by some of our LINC+ CPD Participants on An Inclusive Christmas:https://lincprogramme.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/LINC-CPD-CoP-Christmas-Tip-Sheet.pdf

11/12/2025

Looking to reduce your childcare costs? Visit www.ncs.gov.ie to learn more about the National Childcare Scheme (NCS), including how to apply!

11/12/2025

Are you thinking about training for yourself or your teams in 2026?

Professor of Clinical Psychology, Alan Carr, University College Dublin, conducted a meta-analysis of the Parents Plus evidence base, with over 1,000 families in specialist settings. His analysis highlighted the significant benefit for families who attend the Parents Plus courses, both post-treatment and importantly, at follow-up.

Parents Plus Programmes have a significant impact on:

👉 Reducing child emotion/ behaviour problems.
👉 Reducing parent stress.
👉 Increasing parent satisfaction.
👉 Increasing therapeutic goal achievement.

You can find out more information our Spring 2026 scheduled training here https://buff.ly/WNySWnR

We also deliver tailored "onsite training" for more information contact our Impact Lead Vicki Byrne [email protected]

11/12/2025

More information can be found in the links below:

Webinar recording: https://earlyyearshive.ncs.gov.ie/how-to-guides/training-videos/

Early Years Hive resources: https://earlyyearshive.ncs.gov.ie/downloads/cross-programme-documents/

10/12/2025

Amanda McGuinness, Autism and Visual Support Specialist and founder of Little Puddins, has created a helpful guide for making Christmas more inclusive for all children.🎄🎅

Her neuroaffirmative tips focus on sensory supports, visual strategies and ways to reduce overwhelm for children and families.

Explore the guide here: https://littlepuddins.ie/autism-christmas-help/