These are the deadlines, information, and announcements for the week of 22nd -26th May 2023.
DEADLINES / IMPORTANT DATES:
Friday 26th May
Financial Impact Returns deadline(for community childcare services only)
Request to the Sector on updating staff wage information in the service profile.
Tuesday 30th May
Diversity Equality and Inclusion – Session 1
Tuesday 6th June
Annual Early Years Sector Profile deadline
FOR YOUR INFORMATION
The Finance and Impact Returns (FIRs) for April 2023 are available for competition on Pobal Online
The Finance and Impact Returns (FIRs) for April 2023 are now available to be completed and submitted through Pobal Online. The deadline for submission is Friday 26th May 2023 at 5pm.
Request for updating wage information to support the JLC process
To support the work of the Joint Labour Committee, services are asked to update the data on staff rates of pay in your service profile.
Your support in updating this data by 28thMay will be of great assistance to the members of the Joint Labour Committee. Please note all information provided to the JLC on staff data from service profiles is aggregated and anonymised.
Annual Early Years Sector Profile
This is a reminder that the Annual Early Years Sector Profile 2022/23 survey is currently open and will close on Tuesday, 6th June.
If you are contracted into Core Funding and you do not complete the Annual Early Years Sector Profile 2022/23 within the required timeframe your Core Funding payments will be placed on hold until the survey is completed.
Please note, for Core Funding Partner Services you must complete the March Review and Confirm prior to completing the Annual Early Years Sector Profile 2022/23.
Tusla requirement on the Early Years Hive
Service providers will now be required to provide their Tusla registration number(s) on the Early Years Hive for each care type offered. i.e., if you offer Early Learning and Care (ELC), you must provide a valid ELC registration number. If you offer School Aged Childcare (SAC), you must provide a valid SAC registration number and if you provide both ELC and SAC, you must provide valid Tusla registration numbers for both of these care types.
The purpose of this change is to ensure that a provider has provided their correct Tusla registration numbers(s) for the care type(s) they are providing.
To activate an ECCE Funding Agreement for 2023/24, service providers must first ensure that they have provided a valid ELC Tusla registration on the Early Years Hive.
Once an appropriate and a valid Tusla registration has been submitted on Early years Hive, Service Providers will be able to proceed to register children on a programme. It will not be possible to submit a child registration unless the correct Tusla information has been submitted.
Improvements to the menu navigation of the Early Years Hive
The improvements to the menu navigation of the Early Years Hive, which were communicated on Tuesday, are now live on the Early Years Hive. To help you familiarise yourselves with the new menu, a training video outlining the changes is available under the ‘Early Years Hive how-to training videos’ heading of the Training Videos page HERE.
You can also find a document listing the changes under the heading ‘Early Years Hive Menu Navigation Change’ on the Cross-programme documents page HERE.
Programme Readiness 1 – CCSP Savers, ECCE & AIM Level 1
The first stage of Programme Readiness 2023-24 for NCS, CCSP Savers, ECCE & AIM Level 1 will be available for on the Early Years Hive on Friday 26th May 2023.
You are invited to attend training that will provide an overview of the Programme Readiness steps for CCSP Savers, ECCE & AIM1. Please note NCS is not covered in this training.
Guidance for NCS Programme Readiness is available on Hive here. A recorded version of last year’s Programme Readiness training is also available on Hive here. the NCS process remains the same as last programme call, except for the Fees List, which will be made available later.
Also covered in this training will be the upcoming changes to the portal’s menu navigation, as well as how Tusla registration numbers will be required for funding agreement activation.
The following topics will be covered in the training:
- Changes to the Hive Menu Navigation
- Tusla Certification Changes
- AIM Level 1: Key Points
- CCSP: Adding a Service Calendar and Funding Agreement activation steps.
- ECCE: Adding a Service Calendar, pre-contracting steps and Funding Agreement activation steps.
The webinars will take place at the following dates/times:
Monday 29 May @ 10:00am
Webinar Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7539970687602474842
Monday 29 May @ 2.30pm
Webinar Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/445009070540712539
Tuesday 30 May @ 6.30pm
Webinar Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5605506422367877467
A recording of the session will be published on the Early Years Hive along with a copy of the presentation once all sessions are completed.
The most used guidance documents and training videos will be updated to reflect the new menu navigation and will be available in the Help & Support section of the Early Years Hive after the maintenance. This includes all relevant Programme Readiness guidance.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
Westmeath CCC will be delivering our next suite of Diversity Equality and Inclusion training for early years educators commencing Tuesday 30th May 2023.
Training dates ; All dates must be attended.
- Tuesday 30th May 1pm -5pm
- Thursday 1st June 1pm – 4pm
- Tuesday 6th June 1pm -4pm
- Thursday 8th June 1pm -4pm
Venue – Westmeath CCC training room postcode – N91E430
Training is rolled out with a maximum of 12 participants per suite of training and is free of charge to all participants. Limited places available For bookings use QR code or please complete form
https://forms.office.com/e/kYG1RfqZbd
COVID case advice
For general Covid-19 queries you can contact HSE on 1800 700 700 between 8am and 8pm Monday to Friday and 9am – 5pm Saturday and Sunday or visit the HSE website www.hse/covid19.ie
Should you have any queries on any of the above, please do not hesitate to contact us on 0449335454 or info@westmeathchildcare.ie
