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Demand for childcare training has reached an all time high since the introduction of the Government’s new free pre-school scheme. The Early Childhood Care and Education Scheme requires that staff in childcare services have accredited childcare training in order to participate in the scheme. “This has been a welcome step in the professionalisation of childcare,” said Mary Giblin, coordinator of the Galway City and County Childcare Committee.

The abuse of alcohol and other drugs in the family was the primary reason why children were being monitored by social workers under child protection guidelines, according to the most recent government report on childcare services.

A new community childcare centre in An Spidéal is to benefit from a grant of more than €70,000 towards equipment.

Westmeath County Childcare Committee recently launched its newly published Directory of Services in the community childcare service, Little Blessings, Ballynacargy.

“The best party ever” is how one young reveller described the official opening of the Mulberry Tree Learning Centre on the Killala Road in Ballina which took place on Friday last (September 19).

Child psychology expert Dr Tessa Livingstone - who is the executive producer of the BBC television series Child of Our Time - will address the sixth annual childcare conference on Saturday at the Salthill Hotel. It opens at 9.30am and will be officially launched by Mr Barry Andrews, Minister for Children and Youth affairs.

TG4’s Máire Treasa Ní Dhubhghaill officially launched Connemara’s new mobile playbus, a Galway City and County Childcare Committee initiative in association with the HSE West, recently.

Forty childminders gathered in Galway recently to explore various ways of developing their childcare services. The event was supported by the Galway City and County Childcare Committee.

The future of the seven family resource centres in Mayo are under threat due to recommendations made in the An Bord Snip Nua report.

As children headed back to school this week, parents in the west are becoming increasingly concerned about the threat of swine flu.