Our communities of the future are dependent on our children and young people. Their success as responsible adults and successful contributors is dependent on how parents and carers support and nurture their children.
This role is one of the most important and most challenging roles that any of us can have. Parents and carers have a significant and lasting impact on learning and development in the first five years of a child's life.
Your child learns and develops new things every day as they discover the world around them. This makes childhood an exciting time for them. Parents have an important role in teaching their children values and beliefs and if this is started when they are young, it will carry through into adulthood.
The Education Service can support you as a parent or carer and these web pages are one way in which we approach this.
We have worked with a number of other agencies such as Health to cover a wide range of issues to provide you with helpful information. The pages include practical advice, useful contacts and information about services for young children and their families.
As always, we welcome your comments and ideas for further information you may need.