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Setting up a new preschool

  • 03-02-2020 10:11pm
    #1
    youandme13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 372 ✭✭


    Hi.

    I'm thinking of starting up my own preschool and looking for advice from anyone who has done this?

    I'd have to rent a premise somewhere (Dublin South) looking for pros / cons etc.

    I've been in childcare for a good few years and would really like to have my own place now.

    What funding is available for start ups etc?

    Thank you very much!


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  • #2
    GalwayGrrrrrl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,519 ✭✭✭GalwayGrrrrrl


    youandme13 wrote: »
    Hi.

    I'm thinking of starting up my own preschool and looking for advice from anyone who has done this?

    I'd have to rent a premise somewhere (Dublin South) looking for pros / cons etc.

    I've been in childcare for a good few years and would really like to have my own place now.

    What funding is available for start ups etc?

    Thank you very much!
    A lot of preschools are closing at the moment due to very high insurance costs. Look at that first to make sure it won’t make the venture financially unviable.


  • #3
    Bikerman2019
    Closed Accounts Posts: 992 ✭✭✭Bikerman2019


    Preschools are closing due to paperwork and inspection issues. Not only do you need to have EVERYTHING perfect, the return can make it just not worth it.
    Are you fully qualified to run a place? Are you level 6? 7? or 8? In what discipline? Insurance is going nuts and tomorrow there will be a strike. If you are a service right now, you will know you can have ooodles of qualifications and may not get more than minimum wage, even after years of education.
    I have someone close in this and I know a lot of what she has to do, I was up at midnight on monday typing up contingency plans if her service could not open today due to possible pickets on her building (teachers strike)


    Have you done any research?


  • #4
    Bikerman2019
    Closed Accounts Posts: 992 ✭✭✭Bikerman2019


    OSI wrote: »
    Owned one for over 15 years. Spent most of the last 5 years trying to get rid of it. It’s become a paper pushing quango justifying **** show.


    Yep. The legislation is now overpowering and while super important, is going over the top.


    I sat outside a preschool during the week and had to wait for the children to leave so I could tighten a screw on a kitchen press. I am garda vetted, but not for that role.


    I then wanted to go to the loo. I asked the caretaker where it was. He showed me but then I had to wait outside while he checked there was nobody in there already.


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