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The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Dr Katherine Zappone and the Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh TD, today launched an initiative for children and families – Let’s Get Ready – a gov.ie resource to support young children and their parents/guardians plan for returning to Early Learning and Care (ELC) settings or transitioning to pre-school… Continue reading Resources for children preparing for pre-school and junior infants

Since March 2019, our ABC team in TU Dublin have been working from home. The work of the programme is continuing as close to normal as possible, with lots of organisations responding swiftly with creative solutions to keep programmes running online. If you need to contact the ABC team in TU Dublin, please email abc@tudublin.ie

We are proud of our Consortium model, with 27 organisations supporting the work of Grangegorman ABC. Our original Consortium Agreement was written in 2015, before our programme began. We have learned lots over the last five years and it is time to review our Agreement to bring it up to date with our current practice… Continue reading Consortium Agreement – Review

In recent months, our community organisations have been supporting children and families through the Covid-19 pandemic. Led by the Children and Youth Action Group, our ABC programme funded activity packs which were delivered to homes by our community partners. The packs included stationery, games and materials for children to continue their learning at home. Special… Continue reading Covid-19 Responses

Members of the Grangegorman ABC Steering Group with Minister Paschal Donohue The Launch of the Grangegorman ABC Interagency Action Plan for Children and Young People 2019 - 2021 took place on Friday morning, 16th November at 10.30am in St. Laurence’s Church on the TU Dublin Grangegorman Campus, attended by Minister Paschal Donohoe. This interagency action plan for… Continue reading Launch of the Grangegorman ABC Interagency Action Plan for Children and Young People 2019 – 2021

ABC Grangegorman together with An Siol CDP ran two workshops taking place on 27th November and 5th December 2017 to launch the evaluation report of ABC Grangegorman and to develop a cross agency/cross community strategy for young people into the future.  The two workshops saw participation from cross community/cross agency collaborating in order to evaluate and understand… Continue reading Launch of the ABC Evaluation 2017

The aim of the Upskilling Strand of the Grangegorman ABC Programme is to improve the quality and standard of service delivery in early years provider services in the Grangegorman area.  This will be achieved through: Developing and delivering a tailored Continuous Professional Development (CPD) programme to upskill early childhood services staff to deliver Siolta (the… Continue reading Upskilling Strand – 2015-2017

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In line with the Government’s commitment to draw on best international practice and existing services to tackle aspects of child poverty, Grangegorman ABC focuses on the implementation of interventions and approaches that have been found to significantly improve child outcomes.