RTÉ Young People's Programming (), is a division of Raidió Teilifís Éireann and provides a range of national and international children's programming for RTÉ television, radio and online and also for the independent Irish language broadcaster TG4. It broadcasts in English and Irish. The division is based at the RTÉ Television Centre in Donnybrook, Dublin. The department covers both Radio, Online and Television output for young people across RTÉ. Up to 2016 RTÉ's Young People's Programming Department produced and commissioned content. Independent productions consists largely of animations, live action and entertainment programming, while much of the RTÉ's own produced children's content was studio based. In 2016 RTÉ began cutting funding to Young People's Programming, this resulted in RTÉ axing all in-house productions for children, with no increases to funding for independent producers. Current Programming Let's Find Out, science entertainment series Bush Kids Wild Atlantic Kids Storybud (Story time with famous faces) X Marks the Spot (Comedy/Drama) The Imagination Machine Will Sliney's Storytellers Shorts Yule Love (Short animations for the Christmas Season) Halloween Shorts (Short animations for the Halloween Season) Marten's Shed Gamer Mode Critters TV Junk Kouture Ladybird and Bee Royals Next Door Squad Gold Alva's World (Online safety for pre-schoolers) 2020s COVID-19 programming With the introduction of COVID-19 lockdowns in Ireland, RTÉ began broadcasting Home School Hub to help parents and children with home schooling during the period. RTÉ aired the show from 2020 until 2021, it did not return for the autumn schedule in 2021, as lockdowns came to a close. In 2020 the cast of Home School Hub returned for a Christmas special. Identity By 2021 both TRTÉ and RTÉjr websites had been replaced by a new brand RTÉ KIDS, the brand began to be used more and more by the end of the 2021, with TRTÉ largely being dropped save for programming hours on RTÉ2, a continued trend from the late 2010s. Cost Cutting In mid-2016 RTÉ's Two Tube (previously ID and TTV) finished up for its normal season and then moved online for the rest of 2016. In 2016 RTÉ announced that it would move all production to independent producers. In February 2017 RTÉ's Two Tube was cancelled. Under pressure the management team assured the public that RTÉ "is not reducing its commitment to younger people's programmes, nor its spend", however they had already cut funding to children's content by 25%, this was then followed