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Pupils show they have the write stuff
Efforts to increase child literacy has experts flocking to Ballymun, writes Gabrielle Monaghan Youngballymun and Barnardos are Atlantic grantees. Across the road from the Virgin Mary Girls’ National School, some of Ballymun’s last tower blocks stand half-empty. Roddy Doyle may have immortalised them in The…
Author: The Sunday Times (London)
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Atlantic Grantees Call Irish Government to Account on Commitment to Children
The issue of whether Ireland needs a referendum to secure children’s rights, has been on the table in the Republic of Ireland for a number of years. Early last week, Atlantic grantee, the Children’s Rights Alliance, called the Irish Government to account with its annual…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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President says children's wellbeing a major priority
by CARL O’BRIEN IRELAND HAS yet to realise the ambition of the 1916 Proclamation of Independence which pledged to cherish the children of the nation equally, President Mary McAleese said yesterday. Speaking at Tomorrow’s Children, a conference organised by Barnardos, she said that the well-being…
Author: The Irish Times
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Income levy grossly unfair to low earners warns charity
by CARL O’BRIEN PEOPLE ON low incomes will be hit hardest by the introduction of an 1 per cent income levy in the Budget, a number of lobby groups for the disadvantaged warned yesterday. The Society of St Vincent de Paul said the levy was…
Author: 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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Merger risks poverty agency's independence, warn charities
Subsuming the Combat Poverty Agency into a government department would destroy the watchdog’s independence and ability to carry out vital work, claimed a number of leading charities and community groups yesterday. The future of the state-funded body hangs in the balance as Social Affairs Minister…
Author: Irish Independent
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Gardai criticise HSE services after boy forced to stay in station
Original Source By Ralph Riegel, Tom Brady and Louise Hogan IRELAND faces an imminent tragedy involving vulnerable children because of the chronic shortage of ‘out-of-hours’ social worker resources. The warning came as the Health Service Executive (HSE) was heavily criticised by a powerful garda association…
Author: Irish Independent
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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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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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Fighting Ageism in Ireland
This is the first in a short series of posts recognizing the contribution of The Atlantic Philanthropies to the improvement of lives of older people in Ireland. Charles ( Chuck) Feeney is an Irish American businessman who in 1982 set up the Atlantic Philanthropies. This is one…
Author: The Silver Voice
