Thank you Thank you to everyone who submitted a response to the consultation around the deferred school starting age. There has been overwhelming support for a move to allow some children to delay starting school for a year. Listen to our CEO Alison McNulty discuss the outcome of the report on U105 below. The change […]
What’s Happening? School starting age in Northern Ireland currently depends on when a child’s 4th birthday falls. Children who turn 4 on or before 1st July start school at the beginning of September that same year. Children turning 4 on or after 2nd July start school the following year when they are 5 years old. […]
Save the Date – Monday 11th October 2021 from 9 am – 1pm TinyLife’s CEO will be speaking at the Policy Forum for Northern Ireland Meeting – […]
The Board of Trustees and staff of TinyLife are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of our esteemed President and founding member of TinyLife, Professor James Dornan, his inspirational and ground breaking work has impacted the lives of babies and families worldwide. Professor Dornan will be remembered fondly as a warm hearted, fun loving […]
TinyLife Welcomes Delayed School Starting Northern Ireland’s premature baby charity, TinyLife welcomes Education Minster, Peter Weir’s announcement that he intends to bring forward a draft bill to legislate for some children born prematurely, especially those who are ‘summer born’, to benefit from delayed school starting. Being born prematurely could mean that some children may actually […]
TinyLife CEO Alison McNulty shares her experience of leading the TinyLife team and the challenges the charity faces due to Covid 19. The Leaders Council of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is currently in the process of talking to leadership figures from across the nation in an attempt to understand this universal trait and what […]
If you are parent who has used TinyLife Services in the past or presently, we want to hear from you! With the unexpected events surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent ‘lockdown’, TinyLife had to suspend all face to face services and change the way support to families of premature and sick babies was provided […]
We are looking for Volunteer Car drivers across Northern Ireland to transport medical equipment for mums of premature babies. TinyLife operates a Breast Pump loan service with a fleet of around 120 hospital grade breast pumps that can be loaned to mums of premature and sick babies in neonatal units across Northern Ireland. These pumps […]
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