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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 Road Safety Authority in conjunction with the Galway City and County Childcare Committee are organising a child safety training event for childcare service providers at the Menlo Park Hotel on Tuesday August 11 at 7pm.

Galway Childcare Committee has joined forces with the Road Safety Authority to highlight child road safety.

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

“Choosing childcare: what to look for?” is the title of an information meeting for parents being hosted by the Galway City and County Childcare Committee on Thursday October 8 at the Menlo Park Hotel at 8pm.

A special information meeting for stay-at-home fathers who find themselves more involved with raising their families will be held in Galway on November 17.

Sue Palmer, one of the UK’s best known child development experts, will be a guest speaker at a conference hosted by Galway City and County Childcare Committee entitled Nurturing Bright, Balanced, Children in Modern Times. The GCCCC’s seventh annual childcare conference will take place on Saturday November 28 in the Salthill Hotel.

If your child was born between February 2 2005 and June 30 2006 he/she is eligible for a free pre-school place in January 2010.

The Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) free pre-school scheme is now a part of mainstream government funding and parents are assured their children will have access to a free year of pre-school education.