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ECCE Calculator

What is ECCE and who is eligible?

ECCE Calculator

To determine when your child is eligible to start the ECCE scheme, please enter your child's date of birth below...

For the 2015/2016 year children must be aged more than 3 years 2 months and less than 4 years 7 months on September 1st 2015 to qualify for free pre-school. The table below sets out when a child must have been born to be eligible. From September 2016, the scheme will be extended to allow access to children from the age of 3 years up to the time they commence Primary School. The department has set 3 entry points during each year:

September, for children who turn 3 years on or before the 31st August January, for children who turn 3 years on or before the 31st December April, for children who turn 3 years on or before the 31st March

To be eligible for the Free Pre-School Year in the Year beginning.

September 2016 - June- 2017

January 2017 - June 2017

April 2017 - June 2017

The child must have been born between the dates below (including start and finish date)

1st January 2012 & 31st August 2013

1st January 2012 & 31st December 2013

1st January 2012 & 31st March 2014

"Our experience as Parents of J.F at Roscam Childcare Centre has been excellent and very enjoyable. We found the staff in J's room to be top class and extremely professional on all counts. We couldn't talk highly enough of Maria and Ronan and indeed on many occasions when I went to collect J he didn't want to come home!"

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