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Information for Providers Booklet

The PreSchool Education Expansion Programme is the initiative through which the Government’s commitment to preschool education provision is implemented.  The booklet below provides voluntary and private preschool education centres with information regarding various aspects of the Programme including:-

  • Application, funding and administrative arrangements
  • The admission of children to funded places.
  • Minimum quality standards
  • The role of the qualified teacher or early years specialist
  • Inspection of educational provision.

The pre-school education expansion programme - information for providers booklet (English)

The pre-school education expansion programme - information for providers booklet (Irish)