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Understanding the Needs of Children: A Study of Needs and their Determinants in Limerick and Thurles
(Barnardos, 2007)Full report whose specific objectives are to Identify risk and protective factors present in the lives of children attending Barnardos services in Limerick and Thurles and a representative sample of children living ... -
All you Need is..Measuring Children's Perceptions and Experiences of Deprivation
(Barnardos, 2011)Poverty is a heavy burden to carry in childhood. Statistics show that the numbers of children and adolescents living at risk of poverty or in consistent poverty in Ireland have risen in recent years. These statistics are ... -
All you Need is..Measuring Children's Perceptions and Experiences of Deprivation (Summary)
(Barnardos, 2011)The research conducted by the Children’s Research Centre (TCD) was undertaken in order to examine deprivation from a child’s perspective - what children need, what they have, and what they have to go without due to a ... -
Food Insecurity in Ireland: Impact on Children and their Parents
(Barnardos, 2023)A survey launched by national children’s charity Barnardos and leading grocery retailer ALDI Ireland, found that more than one in seven parents (16%) said that they had been regularly unable to afford a main meal for their ... -
Responding to Parents’ Well-being Needs Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic – A Critical Reflection on the Experiences of Vulnerable Parents and Frontline Service Providers
(Technological University Dublin, 2022)In March 2020, a range of public health measures were introduced to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Ireland, including the closure of non-essential services and schools, and restricting the movements and social interactions ... -
Towards Transnational Co-operation for Children
(Barnardos, 1997)Europe, it seems, is full of paradoxes. For all its recovery from devastation over the past fifty years, for all its economic and technological sophistication, it has become a virtual minefield for children. True, many ... -
The Support Needs of Parents: Responding to Their Children's Behaviour
(Barnardos, 2008)Barnardos Family Support Project in Carlow is supported and informed by a multi-agency advisory group representing voluntary and statutory agencies and the local community. The collective experience of the member agencies ... -
Food Poverty: The Impact on Vulnerable Children and Families
(Barnardos, 2022)New research launched by national children’s charity Barnardos and leading grocery retailer Aldi Ireland, found that 25% of parents often worry about not being able to provide food for their children and nearly three in ... -
Foster Care and Supported Lodgings for Separated Asylum Seeking Young People in Ireland: The Views of Young People, Carers and Stakeholders
(Barnardos and the Health Service Executive, 2013)Separated children (also known as unaccompanied minors) are children who are under the age of 18, who are outside of their country of origin, and who are separated from their legal or customary caregivers. As the ... -
Children on Inner-City Streets in Dublin: Investigation, Report and Design of Proposed Service
(Barnardos, 1996)For some time Barnardo’s has been concerned with the problem of children being on the streets in Dublin in at risk or vulnerable situations. To investigate the problem first hand two child care workers, over a period of ... -
Unaccompanied Minors: An Information Booklet
(Barnardos, 2001)The number of people applying for asylum in Ireland has been increasing steadily since the start of the 1990s, from 39 applications in 1992 to 10,938 in 2000. It is only over the past 2 years, however, that the number ... -
Childcare in Disadvantaged Areas: A Partnership Approach to Viability
(Barnardos, 1998)This study examines the commercial viability of providing child care facilities in disadvantaged areas in Ireland. This research project is divided into three stages. The initial stage of the research reports the results of ... -
Every Child Matters: Children Living Without
(Barnardos, 2003)Barnardos meets children experiencing poverty daily and we know all too well what the human face of poverty looks like. The circumstances and effects of child and family poverty are documented in the case studies which ... -
Cyberbullying: in Children’s Own Words
(Barnardos, 2022)The Barnardos Online Safety Programme has delivered workshops about online safety to primary aged children and their parents since 2014. In September 2019, Barnardos partnered with Google.org to expand our programme and ... -
A Study of the Therapeutic Journey of Children who have been Bereaved: Executive Summary
(Barnardos, 2011)This report describes the research study entitled A Study of the Therapeutic Journey of Children who have been Bereaved. This study was conducted by a research team based in Dublin City University and University College ... -
Enhancing our Future: A Profile of Parenting Programmes in Ireland
(Barnardos, 1998)The vast increase in parenting programmes in recent years is testimony to the interest that parents have in improving their skills and abilities that they possess to ensure that they can carry out this essestial and ... -
A Study of Parenting Programmes in Ireland: Exploration of Needs and Current Provision
(Barnardos and The Department of Health, 1995)This study was jointly initiated by the Health Promotion Unit and the Child Care Policy Unit of the Department of Health and the National Children's Resource Centre, Barnardo's, with a representative from each forming ... -
Understanding the Needs of Children: A Study of Needs and their Determinants in Limerick and Thurles. Executive Summary
(Barnardos, 2007)The purpose of the study was set out in January 2007 in the invitation to tender: “The purpose of the needs analysis is to explore the range of needs that three groups of children present with: • A representative sample ... -
A Study of the Therapeutic Journey of Children Who Have Been Bereaved: Executive Summary
(Barnardos, 2011-04)This report describes the research study entitled A Study of the Therapeutic Journey of Children who have been Bereaved. This study was conducted by a research team based in Dublin City University and University College ... -
Tomorrow's Child
(Barnardos, 2008)It is a truism to say that there is only one certainty in trying to predict the future, which is that one is normally wrong. Throughout recorded history, philosophers, sociologists, scientists and economists have tried to ...
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