Principal calls for checks on school attendance for children in emergency accommodation
Checks on accommodation centres raised in context of child going missing in Donabate, Co Dublin
Children's Rights Alliance
Tusla funding boost should be top budget priority, say 150 children’s organisations
Children’s Rights Alliance says child protection and welfare services must be prioritised
CCTV in creches: do safeguarding benefits outweigh privacy concerns?
Parents have mixed feelings about their children being filmed
Handing our children a poorer society would be a shameful legacy for a rich country
Our lack of action is allowing deprivation to jump from one generation to the next
One in five children lives in poverty when housing costs factored in, ESRI finds
Official poverty measures do not account for accommodation, research body notes
Public supports more targeted measures to tackle child poverty, research finds
Three quarters of those polled believe Government should increase social welfare supports for low-income families in budget
How can a child just disappear without the State even noticing?
Search for remains Co Dublin boy – the second child to vanish in a year – raises concerns about welfare of vulnerable children during Covid pandemic
Tusla referrals set to breach 100,000 mark for first time
`If you weren’t on fire, you weren’t seen as a priority’ says former foster child, of stretched social workers
Number of children in consistent poverty rises by `staggering’ 45,000, report shows
Children’s Rights Alliance says increase is `deeply concerning’
‘He couldn’t see wrong in people’: Family of Daniel McAnaspie seek reform following inquest
Teenager murdered in 2010 was ‘failed by the State at almost every juncture’, Oireachtas committee told
Media regulator made ‘big mistake’ in not tackling algorithms in online safety code, Dáil hears
Social Democrats TD Jennifer Whitmore warns of ‘endless, relentless toxic feeds’ to children ‘in doom loop’
Breakfast clubs in Deis primary schools: ‘If it wasn’t here and you’d had no breakfast you’d be on the yard hungry’
Calls increasing for expansion of breakfast clubs to all Deis primary schools amid rising deprivation
Parents’ group criticises closure of hundreds of schools to facilitate general election
Schools to shut for third time this year following last March’s referendum and local elections in June
Almost 9,000 children in direct provision not eligible for double child benefit payment
Children’s Rights Alliance calls for urgent delivery of the International Protection Child Payment to address poverty s
Kyran Durnin case: How can a child go missing for two years?
Locals in Dundalk express bafflement and shock at disappearance of boy in 2022, when he was aged six
Most people want budget to prioritise low-income families, poll finds
Children’s Rights Alliance head says ‘once-off and top-up payments will not help the children and families most in need’
Ireland has made vital progress in tackling child poverty but no child can be left behind
If we do not pay attention to children today, they may force us to pay attention to them as troubled adults tomorrow
‘Little or no progress’ made by Government on children’s mental health supports, report says
Coalition has done well in areas such as online safety, affordable access to childcare and school books scheme expansion, Children’s Rights Alliance says
‘My children just deteriorated when we became homeless’: The stolen lives of families in emergency accommodation
Growing number of children in homelessness, emergency housing is enormous concern
Budget 2024 must target income support for children living in poverty - community groups
End Child Poverty Week seminar hears of difficulties in direct provision and generational poverty
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