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Barnardos Launches Seven Steps to Ending Child Poverty
Excerpt: Barnardos, Ireland’s leading children’s charity, today called for the rights and needs of children living in poverty to be top of the political agenda. This was the central message from the launch of the Barnardos End Child Poverty campaign which highlights the fact that…
Author: Barnardos.ie
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Barnardos raises €8.5m funding
By GORDON DEEGAN ONE OF IRELAND’S best known children’s charities, Barnardos, has bucked the trend in the recession by increasing the amount it raised in 2009 through fundraising to €8.5 million. Figures by Barnardos Republic of Ireland Ltd show that the chief factor behind the…
Author: The Irish Times
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Barnardos calls for more funds for vulnerable children
Original Source KITTY HOLLAND CONTINUED INVESTMENT in services for vulnerable children is essential despite the economic downturn, one of the State’s leading economists has said. Prof John Fitzgerald of the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) said early intervention in vulnerable children’s lives was vital…
Author: The Irish Times
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Not Just a Numbers Game: Budget Cuts Threaten Those Already Struggling
“Oh, I really feel we’ve been led up the garden path…We are the people that worked. We put this country on its feet, and we’re the people that are being hit every which way.” – Diane, age 81, in Dublin, Ireland Across many of the geographies…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Saving Childhood Ryan - Eight Irish Organisations Fighting for Children Together
Barnardos, CRA, IAYPIC and ISPCC join forces in Ireland today to fight for children. Dublin, Ireland, 20 May 2010 – Eight organisations concerned with child protection have united to launch the Saving Childhood Ryan campaign on the first anniversary of the Ryan Report today. One…
Author: Saving Childhood Ryan
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40,000 new claims for school aid overwhelm officials
By Carl O’Brien There has been a huge increase in requests from families for assistance with the cost of sending their children back to school. Almost 200,000 parents have applied for the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance, 30,000 more than the Government had budgeted for. The…
Author: The Irish Times
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Cuts could wreck poorer children's college chances
THE cutting of child benefit payments to those over the age of 18 could exclude children from lower-income families from third-level education and may even prevent others from completing secondary school, children’s groups said yesterday. In his Budget, Brian Lenihan announced that benefit payments for…
Author: Irish Independent
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Vital YES vote in Children's Referendum Welcomed by Alliance
Photo: Children’s Rights Alliance In an unprecedented step, Ireland has voted by referendum to change its Constitution to strengthen children’s rights and better protect children. After nearly 20 years of vigorous campaigning for constitutional reform, the Children’s Rights Alliance is delighted to finally welcome the…
Author: Children's Rights Alliance
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Asylum Children Go Hungry, Says Report
By Eoin Burke-Kennedy Many children in the State’s asylum process are living in extreme poverty in overcrowded accommodation with inadequate food, according to a report published yesterday. The Irish Refugee Council report paints a grim picture of the State’s system for accommodating asylum-seekers, known as…
Author: Irish Times
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‘Wasteful’ spending of criminal justice system criticised
By CORMAC O’KEEFFE The criminal justice system is spending “increasing and wasteful” sums of scare resources with poor results, a conference will hear today. Penal reform and children’s groups are calling for a shift from criminal justice to social justice, claiming that “modest investments” in…
Author: The Irish Examiner