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Direct linkDuana Quigley; Martine Smith; Nóirín Hayes – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
The nationally funded Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) programme aimed to design, deliver and evaluate interventions to improve a range of outcomes for children growing up in areas of low socio-economic status (SES). A key focus for many PEI programmes was to improve the oral language abilities of children, recognising its important link to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Early Intervention
Carroll, Clare; Murphy, Geraldine; Sixsmith, Jane – Infants and Young Children, 2013
The Republic of Ireland is an island situated in north-west Europe inhabited by 4.6 million people, with 2.8% between 0 and 4 years of age with a disability (Central Statistics Office, 2012). The Irish Government funds the Irish health services, which, in turn, directly and indirectly funds disability services. Education and Disability legislation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Intervention, Disabilities, Access to Education
Doyle, Orla; Logue, Caitriona; McNamara, Kelly A. – Child Care in Practice, 2011
This study examined the factors associated with childcare staff members' readiness to implement quality standards in early childhood settings in Ireland. To coincide with a new government policy that provides every three-year-old child with access to a free preschool year, a framework designed to improve the quality of early childhood care and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Change, Foreign Countries
Kernan, Margaret; O'Kane, Mary – Irish Educational Studies, 2006
The development of a system of regulation in early childhood care and education (ECCE) in Ireland was a slow process. Some decades passed between initial calls for regulation and the actual implementation of standards in 1997, reflecting the delay and inaction that has characterised ECCE policy implementation in general in Ireland. The present…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Child Care, National Standards
Duignan, Maresa – Child Care in Practice, 2005
The development of a National Framework for Quality in early childhood care and education in Ireland is the main focus of the work of the Centre for Early Childhood Development and Education. A central element of the brief for this groundbreaking initiative is that it must have relevance for all settings where children aged birth to six are…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Child Care, Educational Quality
