Parents minding their children at home will again miss out as the Government is set to announce a new childcare subsidy scheme.
Proposed new legislation includes subsidies for parents using childminders as well as a framework for properly regulating the informal, child-minding market.
People whose children are in creches are already able to avail of subsidies under the National Childcare Scheme (NCS) but many thousands of parents using childminders are not.
