Making Life Easier for Famalies

A family in which... both parents earn the average wage, with a child in childcare full-time, currently receiving no childcare subsidy will benefit from a subsidy of €1,040 childcare subsidy over the course of a year.

A working family with... a parental GP Visit Card is eligible to a full-time CCS childcare subsidy of €50 per week. While this amount will not change we anticipate a significant increase in the number of childcare providers taking part in the scheme, allowing many families to access this CCS subsidy for the first time.

Impact of Affordable Childcare These changes are the first step in increasing accessibility and affordability with regard to childcare and will benefit families and our society in many ways.

Jobs These measures to make childcare more affordable from September 2017 aim to contribute to supporting employment and labour market participation nationally.

Gender Equality It is hoped that both measures will have a positive impact on gender equality in labour market participation and with regard to employment opportunities.

Poverty Proofing A core aim of the measures to make childcare more affordable from September 2017 is to contribute to a reduction in child poverty. In both, there is a strong focus on disadvantaged and lower income families.

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Additional Childcare Places for school age children Government funding of €4 million is being provided to improve childcare services for children of school going age and make life easier for parents and families.

This investment is additional to the universal and targeted supports being introduced by Government.

This funding announced will help create over 5,000 extra childcare places in 225 school age childcare services nationwide.

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COLM

BROPHY TD Dáil Éireann, Leinster House, Kildare St, D02 A272.

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BROPHY TD 11/08/2017 17:40

Committed to

Supporting Families

From this

September NEW Childcare supports for families Universal subsidies for every child

6mths - 36mths

in Tusla Registered childcare

1,040 annually

saving up to €

Targeted subsidies

145p/w for children 6mths - 15yrs up to

€

from low income families who need it most, whose parents want to get back to work or education

These universal and targeted childcare supports will: Increase affordability, parental choice and quality childcare Support better educational outcomes for children and their parents Reduce poverty among children and families Help parents get back to work or education Up to 70,000 children will have extra supports when these changes come into force at the start of the new pre-school year.

Here’s what we’ve done so far JULY

2015

SEPT

2016

FREE GP Care for under 6s

430,000 children

for

2nd FREE Pre-School year for

127,000 children €4,000 per child

saving

SEPT

2016

SEPT

2017

SEPT

2017

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2 weeks Paternity leave

60,000 new dads

for

47,000

extra breakfast club places nationwide

25% INCREASE in the Back to School

Clothing and Footwear Allowance benefitting 194,000 children

Examples of impact of these subsidies: A working family... in receipt of Family Income Supplement and with a Medical Card, who currently benefit from a full-time Community Childcare Scheme (CCS) childcare subsidy of €95 per week, will benefit from an increase in childcare subsidy of up to €2,600 per child, per annum (up to €7,540 per child for families who have not benefitted before).

A family in receipt of...

One Parent Family Payment, with a Medical Card, working part-time, who currently benefit from a part-time CCS childcare subsidy of €47.50 per week, will benefit from an annual increase of up to €1,690 per child (Worth up to €4,160 per child for single parents who have not benefitted in the past).

A working family with... a Medical Card, who currently benefit from a full-time CCS childcare subsidy of €50 per week, will benefit from an annual saving of up to €1,040 on childcare costs (worth up to €3,640 per child per annum for families who have not benefitted before).

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