Courts Need Professionally Conducted Assessments to Ensure Child Safety

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Press Release Courts Need Professionally Conducted Assessments to Ensure Child Safety Child Contact Centre Pilot Services Evaluation Launched by One Family (Dublin, Thursday 27 March 2014) One Family – Ireland’s leading organisation for one-parent families – launches the Evaluation of the Child Contact Centre pilot services and its Policy Recommendations for Policy Makers document on […]

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10 Ways to Understand the Value of Play

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For our ’10 Ways to …’ feature this week, we explore why play is important. Read on for our ‘10 Ways to Understand the Value of Play’. The importance of play in a child’s life cannot be underestimated. Play is a child’s work and is “serious stuff”. Importance of play: Play fosters a child’s development in every […]

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Childcare Provision Failure is One of Government’s Harshest Blows to One-Parent Families

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Press Release Childcare Provision Failure is One of Government’s Harshest Blows to One-Parent Families www.onefamily.ie (Dublin, Wednesday 19 March 2014) One Family – Ireland’s leading organisation for one-parent families in Ireland today – responds to the pending publication of a new report due for release later this month by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and […]

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Launch of Child Contact Centre Pilot Services Evaluation and Recommendations

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Child Contact Centre services were run on a pilot basis in two locations in north and south Dublin between 2011 and 2013 by Barnardos and One Family in a partnership arrangement. The service offered a range of assessment, contact and family support services to high-conflict families who were frequently in legal disputes in relation to […]

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Our Response to Draft Heads of Children and Family Relationships Bill

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One Family has submitted a Response to the Draft Heads of the Children and Family Relationships Bill to the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality. One Family holds a broad and inclusive view of family life and we work with people who parent alone, people who share parenting of their children as well as families who are […]

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