{"id":517906,"date":"2026-06-25T15:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/517906\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:14:11","slug":"childminders-ireland-ask-government-to-extend-tusla-registration-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/517906\/","title":{"rendered":"Childminders Ireland Ask Government To Extend Tusla Registration Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Thursday, 25 June 2026 15:24\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/629f128636b5b.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            From September next year, it will be mandatory for childminders to register with the agency.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Childminders Ireland is warning the government there will be a flight of workers in the sector if it persists with its Tusla registration deadline.<\/p>\n<p>From September next year, it will be mandatory to register with the agency, with a three year transition period currently in place.<\/p>\n<p>As of April this year, only 15 Midlands childminders have registered with Tusla to look over a collective 3,700 children in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Bernadette Orbinsky Burke is the Chief Executive of Childminding Ireland and says they&#8217;re asking for more time:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, 25 June 2026 15:24 From September next year, it will be mandatory for childminders to register with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-517906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517906","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=517906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}