ECCE registration, Parent Statements, and the service calendar

Participating requires the current ECCE provider agreement, Tusla registration as the relevant service, and meeting the programme's own rules on staffing, attendance, qualifications, the calendar, and reporting. Registration data for each child needs to be exact — full name as it appears on a birth certificate or passport, date of birth, and PPSN — because a spelling or date error here is a plausible, boring reason for an eligibility or payment issue to surface later.

Two specific documents carry real weight: the Applicant Declaration Form, a signed and dated parent/guardian declaration retained in the child's programme record, and the Parent Statement, which documents the child's actual ECCE arrangement and needs to match their real attendance and the service's actual terms, not a generic template.

The fee table has to make a clear distinction most parents genuinely don't intuit on their own: which hours are ECCE-funded and which additional hours or services are separately charged — and that distinction can't be blurred into a condition. ECCE-funded provision cannot be made conditional on buying unrelated extras; a parent choosing additional hours is a separate, transparently documented arrangement, not a precondition for the free hours.

The service calendar and the hours themselves are programme-year specific rather than fixed forever — the current approved calendar governs the actual weeks, closures, and payment structure, and it's worth checking against the live agreement each year rather than carrying the previous year's numbers forward from memory.

Bloomffy's ECCE eligibility advisory surfaces active children who've reached the eligible starting age and aren't yet enrolled, alongside how much room is actually left across ECCE/sessional-typed rooms — computed live rather than stored, and deliberately advisory rather than automatic: it flags the gap, it doesn't create the enrollment or move a child's room on its own. That's a real, acknowledged gap rather than a finished workflow — there's no admin screen yet to create the enrollment record itself, which means the advisory currently does the easier half of the job (finding who's eligible) and leaves the harder half (actually enrolling them) to a separate manual step.