The purpose of Bocan Community Crèche is to provide a full day care facility for children aged 3 months to 12 years. We open 51 weeks per year and daily from 8am-6pm. We have capacity to cater for 66 children at any one time.

Bocan Community Crèche is a community-based facility managed by Caroline Borden.

Objectives:

·       At Bocan Community Crèche our ethos and practice values diversity and promotes equality.

·       We aim to select friendly, dependable, mature and professional staff through our rigorous recruitment and selection policy.

·       To ensure that the developmental, educational, emotional and social needs of each child are met daily.

·       The voice of the child is heard, respected and contributes to our programme.

·       We aim to deliver a quality curriculum which addresses children’s well-being, identity and belonging, communication and exploring and thinking, along the principles of Aistear, the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework

·       We aim to make Bocan Community Crèche accessible to all members of the community, regardless of race, gender, family status, age, disability, or religious belief.

·       We aim to work with ‘Síolta’ The National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education, by following its 12 principles of quality and the 16 standards within its framework.

·       We operate within the Childcare Act 1991 (Early Years Services) Regulations 2016 and The National Standards for Preschools.

·       The environment is planned and well-organised in a way that suits the different needs of individual children, while keeping in mind the importance of Safety and Hygiene

·   Parents/guardians are actively welcomed at Bocan Community Crèche at all times.  We endeavour to share information and communicate with parents/guardians directly, in order to give feedback at the end of each day and to ensure that they are made aware of on-going developments in policies and procedures.

·     Bocan Community Crèche wishes to promote a positive atmosphere where children, staff and parents/guardians are treated with respect.