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One Family issues press releases on issues of interest to one-parent families in Ireland and representatives are available for comment and interview, including as Gaeilge.
For further details please contact Karen Kiernan, Director, on 01 6629212 / 086 8509191 , email comms@onefamily.ie
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Here are our most recent press releases:
One-Parent Family Payment Reforms
Minister Hanafin’s kite-flying on lone parents must be grounded
One Family, Ireland’s leading organisation providing specialist support services for people parenting alone and sharing parenting has hit back at proposals by Minister Hanafin to impose more social welfare cuts on lone parents.
Candy Murphy, Policy & Research Manager of One Family said: ‘while we continue to welcome the development of effective supports for lone parents aimed at reducing the unacceptably high rates of poverty and social exclusion in one-parent families, we would like reforms to be grounded in good policy and evidence. We remain very concerned at any proposal to introduce mandatory work requirements for lone parents particularly in the current economic climate and in the continuing absence of adequate child care and other supports.Read more »
Posted: January 6th, 2010
Tags: OFP, Social and Family Affairs
One-parent families faced with poverty
One Family , the leading provider of specialist support services for one-parent families in Ireland today expresses its concern that lone parents on welfare will face further cuts in their income as a result of Budget 2010. One-parent families are already experiencing four times the level of poverty found in the general population and the measures introduced today along with those introduced in the last two budgets will , in One Family’s view , increase this inequality.
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Posted: December 9th, 2009
Tags: budget
One Family Policy Manager Candy Murphy to speak at Press Conference Thursday 26 November
Invitation
‘1 million reasons to oppose cuts to Child Benefit’
‘1 million reasons to oppose cuts to Child Benefit’
Representing all elements of family life in Ireland today and jointly opposed to any cuts or changes to Child Benefit in Budget 2010; OPEN, One Family, PACUB, the Children’s Rights Alliance and the National Women’s Council of Ireland invite you to a joint Press Conference on Thursday 26th November, 2009.
Speakers:
Frances Byrne, Director, OPEN Read more »
Candy Murphy, Policy & Campaigns Manager, One Family
Treasa Dovander, Founder, Protest Against Child Unfriendly Budget (PACUB)
Maria Corbett, Policy Director, Children’s Rights Alliance
Orla O’Connor, Head of Policy, National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI)
Posted: November 19th, 2009
Tags: budget, child benefit
