{"id":197098,"date":"2025-12-17T20:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/197098\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T20:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:17:09","slug":"explainer-what-changes-are-being-introduced-to-improve-childcare-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/197098\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: What changes are being introduced to improve childcare in Ireland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Two action plans aimed at reducing childcare costs have been unveiled\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Children\u2019s Minister Norma Foley. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/e2afc31b-9f5c-42d5-b0f6-a3494be7c55e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Children\u2019s Minister Norma Foley. Photo: PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Government has unveiled its plan to tackle affordability in childcare. After promises in the Programme for Government to cap monthly childcare fees at \u20ac200, Children\u2019s Minister Norma Foley has announced the first phase of the plan to get there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ms Foley launched two action plans today. The first, Shaping the Future, looks at short-term measures that will be brought in next year to help with cost, accessibility and quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two action plans aimed at reducing childcare costs have been unveiled Children\u2019s Minister Norma Foley. Photo: PA The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[807,61,60,43,2988,7732],"class_list":{"0":"post-197098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-housing","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-norma-foley","13":"tag-tabitha-monahan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}