A Celebration of the Children’s Promise Grants Programme, 14 September 2023, The Richmond Education and Event Centre, Smithfield Traveller and migrant families, young people with autism and mothers with difficult pregnancies are among those benefitting from a ‘Children’s Promise Grants Programme’ which has been announced as part of End Child Poverty Week. Seventeen groups across...
Means-tested child benefit tier could take more than 40,000 children out of poverty ‘This report is the third from an ESRI research programme funded by Community Foundation Ireland, which seeks to address gaps in our knowledge and understanding of poverty, income inequality and living standards in Ireland. It builds on the previous reports which have...
KHF Annual Report 2022 now available to read and download here. We would like to thank our partners for their contribution to the report & we look forward to continued collaborations supporting & improving the lives of children & families across Ireland.
The Ombudsman for Children’s Office is required under law to submit to the Oireachtas an Annual Report on the performance of its functions. The OCO Annual Report 2022 was published on 16 May 2023. The OCO received 1,812 complaints in 2022 – one of their busiest year for complaints since the establishment of the office....
‘Children’s Promise’ Grants Programme: Harnessing Childhood Potential through Community-based Collaborations The ‘Children’s Promise’ Grants Programme is a new programme within the Katharine Howard Foundation, in collaboration with Community Foundation Ireland (CFI), and aims to support organisations working with young children and their families in disadvantaged areas, who may not reach their potential due to the...
PEIN are compiling a snapshot of the national response to the Ukraine crisis to gather learning from what works & what doesn’t work. If you are a child & family service that provides or has provided support to Ukrainian refugees, please take 5 minutes to fill out the survey in the link below: https://surveymonkey.com/r/BB6MZ7L
At the end of 2022, KHF provided a grant towards the development of a Nurture Room in St. Joseph’s Junior National School and Pop-up Crèche in Ballymun. The grant was used to decorate and furnish a new space called the Nurture Room, a safe, warm and home-like environment for the children engaging with this space.The...
The Children’s Rights Alliance Report Card 2023 is the third analysis of the Programme for Government: Our Shared Future and how it performed for children in 2022, and an analysis of 16 promises made to children and young people. Full Report Card is on the CRA website here
Request for Expression of Interest- Community Families Implementation Readiness Assessment and Planning Support The Community Families Programme National Oversight and Support Group wishes to engage a suitably qualified person to undertake an assessment of the readiness of the current 7 Community Mothers Programme sites to transition to the Community Families model and to identify the...
