Child Care (Amendment) Act 2024

Amendment of Childcare Support Act 2018

21. The Childcare Support Act 2018 is amended—

(a) in section 1(1)—

(i) by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “childcare service”:

“ ‘childcare service’ means an early years service;”,

(ii) in the definition of “childcare services provider”, by the substitution of “an early years service” for “a pre-school service or a school age service”, and

(iii) by the insertion of the following definition:

“ ‘early years service’ has the same meaning as it has in Part VIIA of the Act of 1991;”,

and

(b) in Schedule 2, by the addition of the following item:

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

To support parents under the age of 18 years to remain in education or training through access to childcare services.

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