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The All Ireland Centre of Excellence Award

Early Years – the organisation for young children and NCNA, the National Children's Nurseries Association, provide an accreditation programme that supports the development of quality in full day child care services throughout Ireland.

Based on self evaluation, the programme can be used as an ongoing focus on quality to identify where a service is on its quality journey and what strategies it needs to promote quality improvement.

A Self Evaluation Profile document is available which clearly states the ten areas to be addressed by the service and the required standard to be met. There is a team of experienced early years validators who represent Early Years and NCNA whose role is to assess the service against the self evaluation profile.

For further information on the All Ireland Centre of Excellence Award please contact Early Years – the organisation for young children.

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