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...
The RTÉ Toy Show Appeal was established in 2020 to raise funds for Irish children’s charities through the televised Late Late Toy Show. Since then, more than €17 million has been raised to support these charities. Thanks to the continued generosity of the Irish public, the Appeal raised over €3,800,000 since November 2022 to be distributed through...
Children’s Rights Alliance launched the first Child Poverty Monitor on 13 July, the first in a series of reports that will analyse the complexity of child poverty across the country. The Monitor explores the root causes and showcase solutions to addressing issues including educational disadvantage, social exclusion, accessing healthcare, homelessness, food poverty and income inadequacy....
