Nine innovative childcare projects in Northern Ireland were last week awarded grants of more than 400,000 by the New Opportunities Fund under its Building Quality Childcare programme. The projects include a new family centre in Ballycastle, which will be enabled to incorporate an existing Irish language pre-school childcare and toddler facility in a new building and provide after-school childcare. In Newtownabbey, near Belfast, the charity SENSE - the National Deafblind and Rubella Association - has been awarded 70,975 to extend its special needs care and expand its premises.
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