When Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin in 1931, Einstein said, 'What I admire most about your art is its universality. You do not say a word, and yet the world understands you.' 'It's true.' Replied Chaplin, 'But your fame is even greater. The world admires you, when no one…

Dads can defer their paternity leave if sick
Mams can defer maternity leave if baby is hospitalised
Workers can defer annual leave if sick

But if a mother to a new born becomes seriously ill- good luck! Law says you can’t defer maternity leave

#LeaveOurLeave Irish Cancer Society

Minister Roderic O’Gorman TD with Central Statistics Office Ireland who were at the inaugural SIPTU Early Years Conference last weekend to promote the OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives Starting Strong Teaching & Learning International Survey (TALIS Starting Strong) & GrowingUpinIreland to ELC & SAC staff.

👉 bit.ly/TalisStartingS…

An informative read with interesting recommendations. Some shocking statistics throughout, e.g., Number of children living in consistent poverty, rose to 7.5% in 2022, over 1 in 7 children at risk of poverty, living in households with income below the poverty line'
#InvestinECEC

Ireland will soon formally recognise State of Palestine, Tánaiste to tell Dáil irishtimes.com/politics/2024/…

‘Inexperienced managers often resort to micromanaging because they feel like they’re losing control of the work and don’t trust their employees to do it how they would’.

A very simple but overlooked truth here about the difficulty of moving from being a talented individual…

Backs up everything we've been saying for years & the likes of Prof. James Heckman /Peri preschool. Mad to think gov policy has taken us in the opposite direction for the past 7/8 years & undone years of great early intervention. Roderic O’Gorman TD Children, Equality, Disability, Integration, Youth
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Opinion: Religion must move outside school hours, for the sake of students and teachers irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

Just back from my Easter break to emails, application forms and phone calls from families looking for ECCE places because a full day-care ECEC/ SAC in a nearby town has just announced that it is closing from June 24. Heart goes out to the owner, staff, children and families.

Speaking of stress & burnout in the Early Childhood Profession Lynette, a community manager shares of the normalisation of over work, daily juggling of overburdened services, necessary tasks spilling outside working hours
This system is unsustainable
SIPTU - The Early Years Union

Been saying this for years & while professional wages are essential, none of us started working in ECEC to become millionaires but unless you can enjoy your work and feel valued why would educators stay. The gov & Children, Equality, Disability, Integration, Youth need to start valuing, respecting & funding educators.

Minister Roderic O’Gorman TD today, launched a call for proposals under the Programme for Support Organisations to Early Learning and Care, School Age Childcare and Childminding Sector 2025.

Read the full Press release at: bit.ly/3VOR0l2

This is unbelievable. With all the xenophobic, and hateful posts on Facebook that don't break their rules it's shocking that The GAA get supermacs account suspended for an April Fool joke. Makes no sense

Former supreme court judges say UK arming Israel breaches international law theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Really important for any services who got an invite to take part do so. It's with strong statistics from groups like talis that we can push for positive changes

This year the Ombudsman for Children's Office is celebrating 20 years of protecting and promoting children's rights in Ireland.

We heard directly from children about the issues they care about and their hopes for the future of children's rights.

⭐ Tomorrow Starts With Us ⭐

‘We shouldn’t be worrying about being able to afford food’ – community creche manager on ‘disgraceful’ state of childcare. Children, Equality, Disability, Integration, Youth these concerns aren't new, we've been saying them for years while Gov ECEC policy has been dragging us backwards.

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NewstalkFM Norma Foley T.D Great news for teachers and well deserved. Imagine an early childhood teacher also with a four year degree beginning on €17,000 less. ECEC teacher attraction and retention is also critical. #ececteachers #qualitycosts

There are no ECEC places for under 2 years in Offaly. This is not acceptable on any level. The state,+ their dept's, have an obligation to create a mechanism that drives a data driven system to support the creation of ECEC places in areas like this. m.independent.ie/irish-news/the…