NSLF student employment record and applications training invite
You and your staff are invited to attend training on the Nurturing Skills Learner Fund (NSLF) Registrations, Employment Record and Student Applications training. The sessions will be held on 10 and 11 March 2025, as applications for the NSLF for the academic year 2025/2026 will open shortly.
- What is the Nurturing Skills Learner Fund
- Registering to the NSLF Portal
- Completing the Employment Record
- Student Applications
- Demonstration of the NSLF Portal
- be working with children in a Tusla-registered Early Learning and Care (ELC) or School Age Childcare (SAC) service,
- the service in which the applicant is working in, must have a current signed Core Funding contract with DCEDIY.
- Applicants must have worked within an ELC or SAC service for the six months prior to their application.
- Applicants must have a current application/offer for 2025/26 entry to a Level 7/8 Degree course approved by the Qualification Advisory Board (QAB) that is eligible for NSLF.
- be a new entrant to an Approved Course for the academic year commencing 2025/2026 (Autumn 2025)
- not be an ELC educator or SAC practitioner currently undertaking the completion of an Approved Course or an equivalent degree; and
- not be an ELC educator or SAC practitioner who has already completed an Approved Course or equivalent degree.
Kind Regards,
The Early Years Team