Early Years - the organisation for young children

Early Years - the organisation for young children

United Kingdom

Early Years is the largest organisation in Northern Ireland for young children. We are a non-profit making organisation and have been working since 1965 to promote high quality childcare for children aged 0 - 12 and their families. On 1st November 2007 we changed our name to Early Years - the organisation for young children. When we started our work in 1965 NIPPA stood for Northern Ireland Pre-School Playgroup Association, but as our work developed we realised that this did not fully reflect all that we do so we changed our name to NIPPA - the early years organisation. In 2005 we realised that our work had moved on again and after consultation with members and stakeholders we voted to change our name to Early Years - the organisation for young children. Currently Early Years provides information and training for parents, childcare providers, employers and local authorities. We hope this website will help you to find out more about early childcare and education.

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Early Years - the organisation for young children

Early Years – the organisation for young children is running FREE family healthy lifestyle programmes called the Family Health Initiative, which is funded by the Public Health Agency in the Southern Health and Social Care Trust areas until March 2015.

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Early Years - the organisation for young children

A new childcare app is set to ease pressures on parents across Northern Ireland by providing constant fingertip access to both details of childcare and early education providers and quality ratings, thanks to Early Years. The Choosing Childcare and Early

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Early Years - the organisation for young children

Early Years – the organisation for young children offer facilities to accommodate training, conferences and meetings. Our rates are competitive with those of hotels or conference venues.

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  • Early Years
  • Sarah Fairgrieve
  • amanda larmour-mcquaide
  • Tonine McMenamin
  • Maryann McCready