Northern Ireland’s consultation on the region’s proposed 10-year childcare strategy is closing in November, following a three-month roadshow of meetings throughout the country.
The executive’s strategy aims to prepare children for lifelong wellbeing and achievement, thereby creating the basis for a better, more prosperous future. It also wants to enable parents to join the workforce, thereby enhancing prosperity and improving gender equality by enabling mothers to join the workforce, return to work and remain in work.
In order to deliver on these aims and objectives, the draft strategy proposes 22 actions on which the executive has been seeking stakeholder views.
Home Childcarer will report on the outcome of the consultation.