Press Release ONE FAMILY AND EBS ANNOUNCE FAMILY DAY CELEBRATIONS AND NATIONAL ART COMPETITION Family Day | Sunday, 19 May 2013 | www.familyday.ie Celebrate families, celebrate your family. (Dublin, 18 April 2013) One Family, Ireland’s leading organisation for one-parent families and EBS celebrate the diversity of families in Ireland with Family Day 2013. This […]
One Family is attending Taking Action to Fight Child Poverty and to Promote Child Well-being, a two-day conference in Dublin organised by Eurochild, European Anti-Poverty Network Ireland, UNICEF and Children’s Rights Alliance as part of Ireland’s Presidency of the EU. Yesterday UNICEF published Report Card 11 naming Ireland as the 10th best developed country in […]
Almost half of the State’s children are living in households in receipt of social welfare, the Oireachtas Social Protection Committee was told yesterday. Ita Mangan, Chairwoman of the group that recommended a two-tier child benefit system, warned that this is “worrying” and also told the committee that one in five children in the Republic of […]
Budget 2013 has been delivered in the UK today. Responding to the UK government’s announcement that up to 85% of childcare costs for some low-income families eligible for Universal Credit (UC) will be covered from April 2016, Stuart Duffin, One Family’s Director of Policy & Programmes, said: “UK government is recognising the high costs of […]
One Family is delighted to welcome two authors, Sandra Garrish and Karl O’Neill, to Cherish House for a storytelling event on Thursday and we invite you to join us. Canadian writer Sandra will read ‘Above The Trees’, a story she wrote for her young daughter. It aims to open a dialogue to explain the absence […]
