Community Childcare Subvention Plus Saver (CCSP Saver) Programme

The Community Childcare Subvention Plus (CCSP) Saver Programme is a childcare programme targeted to support parents/guardians on a low income to avail of reduced childcare costs at participating childcare services. Services may cater for infant, pre-school and afterschool places. They may also incorporate a breakfast club. Some services may be stand-alone services and cater for just one type of service e.g. afterschool.

The Department pays a portion of the childcare costs for eligible children (a payment described as a subvention payment) with the parent/guardian paying the remainder. The subvention is available for one year, i.e. for a maximum of 52 weeks from the commencement of the CCSP Saver Programme.

The 2025/2026 CCSP Saver Programme runs from the 11th August 2025 until 7th August 2026. This is referred to as the Programme Year.

The CCSP Saver Programme closed on the 15th November 2019. Children who were registered for the CCSP Saver Programme on the 12th March 2020 in the 2019/2020 programme year and were in attendance and retained registrations under the CCSP Saver Programme 2024/2025, and who did not leave the CCSP Saver Programme to register for NCS, will be regarded as eligible ‘Savers’ for the purposes of the 2025/2026 programme year.

No new registrations can be made under the CCSP Saver Programme for children who have not been previously registered on the CCSP Saver 2019/2020 programme year.