The Purpose of St. Sheelan’s Community Childcare Service is to provide quality, affordable early education to children from 8 months to 5 years, in the local community. It is a community service and is classified as a full-day care/sessional and part-time service under the Childcare Act 1991 ( Early years Services) Regulations 2016. We are open for 50 weeks per year from September 1st - September 30th. We can cater for 60 children at any one time. We have the following:

o Toddler Room Honey Pot- subject to numbers with max 12 children per year

oWobbler Room Bumble Bee- with max 10 children per year

oToddler Room- Caterpillar- with max 12 children per year

oPreschool Junior Room- Cocoon with max 11 per year, during ECCE time

oPreschool Senior Room- Butterfly with max 19 per year, during ECCE Time and 16 per year after ECCE time.

 

     Core Work Aims

 

At St. Sheelan’s we aspire s to provide a high quality childcare environment that promotes the development of each individual child and supports each child to reach his/her potential.

The “Aims” of St. Sheelan’s Childcare Centre are outlined as follows:

• To provide an affordable, accessible, high quality and safe childcare provision for the locality of St Sheelan’s Childcare Centre and surrounding areas.

• To provide equal access to low income Parents/Carers by providing an appropriate fee structure.

• To support holistic child development and learning through providing an educational and stimulating environment.

• To enable all children attending the Crèche to be

  • Happy

  • Confident

  • Respectful

  • Creative

  • Independent

  • Patient

  • Caring

• To work in partnership with all Parents / Carers of the children attending the Crèche.

We endeavor to promote to following as the goals of St Sheelan’s Childcare Centre:

·The “Objectives” of St. Sheelan’s Childcare Centre are outline as follows:

·To offer a safe, secure and loving environment for all children attending the Crèche.

·To supply an educational and stimulating environment which encourages all children to fulfill their potential in learning through a play based curriculum.

·To embrace and value all children regardless of their race, gender, age, language, disability, culture, nationality, class or religion.

·To understand and appreciate the uniqueness of each child and treat them as individuals.

·To always remain respectful of the fact that all Parents / Carers are their child’s primary educator and care giver.

·To build good relations with all Parents / Carers.

·To build good relations with all agencies involved with the Service

 

       Collective Responsibility

 

St. Sheelan’s Community Childcare Services Ltd Board of Directors is a collective decision-making body, acting in an oversight capacity for the best interests of the organization. This means that as a member you are bound by the collective decision take and must support it, even when you voted against it. If you disagree with a decision, you can only remove yourself from the responsibility for it, by resigning from the Board.  Unless otherwise stated by the Board, you cannot act independently.

 

      Equality & Diversity

 

Equality and Diversity are an integral part of our values and practices.  Equality of Opportunity is often defined as the removal of obvious or hidden barriers.  In St. Sheelan’s Community Childcare Services Ltd, we exemplify an ethos that values and respects our staff, respecting differences and treating everyone with dignity and respect.  Diversity is about respecting and managing differences, recognising that people from differing backgrounds and cultures can bring new ideas and values into the organisation.

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Charity Regulator

St Sheelans has been actively working towards full complaince with the Charity regulator and governance code. We hired

in an external company to help us reach compliance in September 2022 and it is now near completion.

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Board of Management:

Linda Nesbitt: Chair person

Director: Eoin Wolohan

Director: David Young

Secretary: Micheal Lenihen