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  • Analysis of Budget 2012 from a Children and Families Perspective 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2011)
    Barnardos is particularly concerned about the cumulative affect the cuts to social welfare and public services coupled with the imposition of more taxes will have on vulnerable low income families. Larger families (with ...
  • Barnardos Children’s Budget 2012 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2011)
    Barnardos knows that the recession is having a serious impact on many children across Ireland. Recent cuts to social welfare rates, reduced working hours and increased taxes have all meant more families struggling to ...
  • This is Barnardos’ Children’s Budget 2008 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2007)
    The recommendations we are putting forward in the Children’s Budget 2008 stand to benefit all children living in Ireland but specifically those living in poverty. Children living in poverty need targeted income help for ...
  • This is Barnardos’ Children’s Budget 2007 

    Barnardos (2006)
    Barnardos is putting forward a Children’s Budget for 2007. This budget submission prioritises the key factors that determine the quality of children’s lives - household income, education, medical needs and play/recre ...
  • Budget 2006: Invest in Children’s Future 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2005)
    Budget 2006 must reduce the gap between the rich and the poor. Ireland has the 3rd highest level of poverty across 18 industrialised countries, with the richest 10% of the population having 9.7 times more wealth than the ...
  • Children’s Budget 2009 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2008)
    2009 will be a difficult year. The threat of recession is already foreshadowed by increasing unemployment and rising cost of living. For many of us, the coming belt-tightening is an inevitable reality but one that means ...
  • Children’s Perspective of Budget 2018 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2017)
    Budget 2018 has provided some small gains for families, such as funding for frontline health services and investment in housing supports. However, it is disappointing that it fails to provide real solutions for the major ...
  • Analysis of Budget 2016 from a Child Perspective 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2015)
    Barnardos welcomes the investment in children in Budget 2016 as an important first step in tackling child poverty and inequality. It will, however, take a sustained plan to properly resource the services which most impact ...
  • Analysis of Budget 2015 from a Children and Families Perspective 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2014)
    Barnardos is pleased that some announcements made in Budget 2015 show the Government is keen to offer some relief to low income families. Measures such as a €5 increase in child benefit for all families will help alleviate ...
  • Children’s Budget 2015 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2014)
    As 2014 progresses there is increasing commentary highlighting Ireland’s return to economic growth with better than expected exchequer returns, reducing unemployment and increasing consumer confidence. But such commentary ...
  • Children’s Budget 2014 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2013)
    Children are growing up feeling hopeless and helpless. The impact of consecutive austerity budgets has put substantial pressure on their families. Parents are coping with overwhelming stress and anxiety and Barnardos is ...
  • Children's Budget 2013 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2012)
    There is little doubt that the recession has taken its toll on families across Ireland in recent years. All families, with few exceptions, have struggled with the impact of increasingly stretched incomes. However, there ...
  • Analysis of Budget 2014 from a Children and Families Perspective 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2013)
    Barnardos welcomes some key measures announced in Budget 2014 particularly those that will ease the financial burden on many hard pressed families. The introduction of practical measures such as free GP care to the under ...
  • Analysis of Budget 2013 from a Children and Families Perspective 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2012)
    Barnardos is deeply concerned about the impact the measures outlined in Budget 2013 will have on children and families across Ireland, particularly those struggling on low incomes. This Budget belies the Government’s ...
  • 2017 Pre Budget Submission 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2016)
    Budget 2017 presents an opportunity which must not be wasted. Not only will this be the first budget of a new government undertaking a collaborative approach to governing as a minority, but it also cements the return to ...
  • Pre-Budget Submission to the Department of Social Protection 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2015)
    Irish political and public discourse has firmly shifted from recession to recovery. This rhetoric is supported by Exchequer accounts, with the Government announcing it expects a substantial surplus in this year’s budget.1 ...
  • Every Childhood Lasts a Lifetime: Invest in Children: Barnardos' Pre-budget Submission, 2005. 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2004)
    The theme of the 2005 Barnardos Pre-Budget Submission to Government is "Invest in Children". It is a truism to state that children are a country's future but Barnardos would argue that investment in this generation of ...
  • Children’s Budget 2023 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2022)
    Over the last 12 months, children and their families faced great uncertainty and disruption to their lives, first through pandemic restrictions and more recently with unprecedented cost of living increases. For some, ...
  • Children's Budget 2018: Key Recommendations: Infographic 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2017)
    Children from disadvantaged backgrounds are 5 times more likely to perform poorly in science, reading and maths compared to their advantaged peers.
  • Key Changes in Budget 2021 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2020-10-14)
    The focus of Budget 2021 is investment in the resilience of the Irish people and the economy; children have demonstrated incredible resilience in this pandemic and continue to do so. Investment in children has never been ...

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