Roderic O’Gorman Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth today announced that over 90% of early learning and childcare services have applied for the third year of Core Funding to date.

For the third year of operation, Core Funding has increased by 15% to €331 million to ensure the benefits of Core Funding will continue to be felt by children and their families and services across the full programme year.

The 90% uptake rate is in line with previous years of Core Funding, and services can sign up to Year 3 of the scheme at any time over the course of the programme year (September 2024-August 2025).

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