Ballincollig Family Resource Centre provides a Childcare service that is child led, community based and affordable. Our Childcare team are committed to building a strong relationship with the children, parents and guardians participating in our service.
Our Childcare team are highly qualified childcare practitioners with a number of the team being qualified LINC Co-ordinators(access and inclusion module). Our practice is guided and supported by Aistear (2009) The Early Childhood Curriculum Framework and Siolta (2006) The National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education and the National Preschool Standards.
Ethos of our childcare service
- A high-quality service centred around the child’s emerging interests
- Strong partnership with parents and families
- Supporting children with additional needs
- Supporting each individual child
- Maintaining the practitioner/child relationship during closure
- Play based curriculum developed in line with Aistear
- Multiagency team working – Family Support Workers, Public Health Nurse, Link Worker etc.