Pre-Registration Training (Dun Laoghaire Rathdown & South Dublin Areas)

Childminding Pre-Registration Training is a mandatory course for anyone who intends to register with Tusla for a childminding service.
About this Event

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Childcare Commitee & South Dublin Childcare Committee are delighted to offer the following training for childminders in those areas.

The Childminding pre-registration training is a mandatory course for anyone who intends to register with Tusla for a childminding service.
A childminding service involves an individual taking care, by themself, of children under the age of 15 years, for payment, in the childminder’s home. A childminder is self-employed and provides a paid childcare service for a minimum of 2 hours a day in their own home.
If you are employed by a child’s parents and you look after the child/children in their home, you cannot register as a childminder.
To take this training course you must be:

• 18 years old or over
• Self-employed and providing a paid childcare service in your OWN home
• Either currently working as a childminder and intending to register with Tusla, or Intending to work as a childminder and register with Tusla

The aim of the training programme is to help you: ·

• Understand the new childminding regulations.

• Apply the regulations to your childminding practice.
• Understand the Tusla registration process for childminders.
• Understand the documentation required to register with Tusla.
• Access supports and resources.

All 3 pre-registration training sessions will be covered in one day and a certificate of attendance given.

If you have any questions or are unsure if this training is for you then please contact

[email protected] (Dun Laoghaire Rathdown) [email protected] (South Dublin Childcare Committee)

All childminders working in their own home, minding one or more children are legally required to be regsitered with Tusla by September 2027