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Submission to Department of Rural and Community Development on the Working Draft of the National Volunteering Strategy 2020 - 2025
(Barnardos, 2020)Barnardos mission is to help transform children’s lives through our services; support parents; and challenge society where it fails our children. In 2019, we had 367 (2018: 320) volunteers involved across the organisation. ... -
Supporting One Parent Families During and After the COVID-19 Crisis: Joint NGO Submission to the Special Committee on COVID-19 Response
(Barnardos, Children’s Rights Alliance, Dress for Success Dublin, FLAC (Free Legal Advice Centres), Focus Ireland, National Women’s Council, One Family, Society of St Vincent de Paul, SPARK (Single Parents Acting for the Rights of our Kids) & Treoir, 2020)As a group of organisations working with children and families and some of the most vulnerable groups in Irish Society, we are making this submission to the Special Committee on COVID-19 Response to ensure the needs of ... -
A Million Reasons to Get it Right : The Barnardos Children's Declaration
(Barnardos, 2007)The purpose of A Million Reasons to Get it Right — The Barnardos Children’s Declaration is to shine a spotlight on the key issues that affect children’s lives. Our hope is that the recommendations we are proposing will ... -
Shifting Focus: From Criminal Justice to Social Justice - Building Better and Safer Communities
(Barnardos and others, 2010)Crime cannot be viewed as a social problem in isolation from deeper social and economic issues. Understanding and responding to offending behaviour is a complex issue. There is no one ‘cause’ and no single solution; ... -
Building Brighter Futures: Keeping Children Safe as Houses
(Barnardos, No date)Barnardos is appealing to the Property Industry to raise £250,000 this year to help us provide desperately needed services to vulnerable children and their families. -
Saving Childhood, Children's Rights Referendum: Not Sometime; Now
(Barnardos and others, 2010)The Saving Childhood Group (Barnardos, CARI, Children’s Rights Alliance, Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, Irish Association of Young People in Care, ISPCC, One in Four and Rape Crisis Network Ireland) commissioned Behaviour ... -
Saving Childhood Ryan: Fighting for Children Together
(Barnardos and others, 2010)The publication, of the Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (commonly known as the Ryan Report) on 20 May 2009 revealed horrific wrongdoings perpetrated against children living in institutions during the ... -
Findings from the End Child Poverty Coalition: Scoping Document on a Second-tier Child Income Support
(Barnardos and others, 2010)In June 2010 the End Child Poverty Coalition commissioned research to investigate the potential of a Second Tier Child Income Support payment to act as a targeted means of supporting low income families, whether that ... -
Child Poverty: Ireland in Recession
(Barnardos and others, 2011)The recession has hit the lives of many children hard. Child poverty in Ireland did not end during the boom years, in spite of Government promises. Now, as our economic situation worsens, and families up and down the ... -
Submission for Public Consultation on the Workforce Development Plan for the Early Learning and Care and School-Age Childcare Sector in Ireland
(Barnardos, 2020)Barnardos' vision for the workforce for early learning and care and school-age childcare by 2028. -
Impact of Covid19 on Early Years Education & Childcare
(Barnardos, 2020)Barnardos has been delivering quality, evidenced based services, providing practical and emotional supports to children, parents and families for almost 60 years. In 2019 we worked with more than 17,000 children and families ... -
Submission for Public Consultation on Future Funding of Early Learning and Care and School-Age Childcare in Ireland
(Barnardos, 2020)The Expert Group has developed a set of principles to guide them in their work. The draft guiding principles and a description of each principle are set out here. -
Submission to Department of Education and Skills on Guidelines for the use of Reduced Timetables
(Barnardos, 2019-10)Barnardos provides services before, during, and after school to support children in their social and emotional development, which ultimately supports their education. We provide two evidence-based programmes in schools. A ... -
Submission to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills on Textbook Rental Schemes, the use of Technology for Educational Purposes and the Necessity to Resort to Moneylenders to Cover School Costs
(Barnardos, 2019)Our submission is based on what parents tell us each year in our school costs survey. Since 2005, Barnardos has been highlighting the costs incurred by parents in preparing their children to return to school in September. ... -
Submission to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills on the Current use of Reduced Timetables
(Barnardos, 2019-05)Barnardos provides services before, during, and after school to support children in their social and emotional development which supports their education. We also provide an evidence-based reading programme in schools which ... -
Submission to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs on the Impact of Homelessness on Children
(Barnardos, 2019)The shameful impact of the housing crisis was recently highlighted by the Ombudsman for Children in his report – No Place Like Home – which captured the views and experience of children living in Family Hubs. Children ... -
Submission to HIQA on a Scoping Consultation to Inform the Development of Draft National Standards for Children’s Social Services
(Barnardos, 2019)Submission to HIQA on a Scoping Consultation to Inform the Development of Draft National Standards for Children’s Social Services -
Submission to the Working Group on Certain Aspects of the Juvenile Justice System
(Barnardos, 1998)Barnardos recognises that there is a significant problem of youth crime in Ireland. In 1996, to take just one indicator, over 14,000 referrals were made to the juvenile diversion programme. This level of young offending ... -
Submission to the Law Reform Commission Consultation Paper on Child Sexual Abuse
(Barnardos, 1989)Submission to the Law Reform Commission Consultation Paper on Child Sexual Abuse. -
Submission to the Commission on the Family
(Barnardos, 1996)In thinking about making a submission to the Commission on the Family it seemed to us that the best approach was to talk to ‘the experts’, those involved in the daily experience of family life. This submission, therefore, ...
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