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One Family launches 10 Solutions campaign to help get lone parents back to work

One Family – 10 cost neutral suggestions for helping lone parents back to work Media release, 19 April 2012, One Family, Ireland’s leading organisation for one-parent families, announces its ‘One Family-Ten Solutions’ campaign which provides ten cost neutral strategies to assist lone parents back into work or education. This follows Minister for Social Protection, Joan […]

Ian Dempsey Launches Family Day 2012 for One Family

Press Release ONE FAMILY & EBS LAUNCH FAMILY DAY AND ANNOUNCE DETAILS OF THEIR FAMILY DAY ART COMPETITION AND A PICNIC TO BE HOSTED IN DUBLIN’S IVEAGH GARDENS ON SUNDAY 13 MAY IRISH BROADCASTER, IAN DEMPSEY CALLS ON FAMILIES ACROSS IRELAND TO CELEBRATE FAMILY DAY 5 April 2012 – To mark International Day of the […]

Our New Contact Centre gets loads of press coverage

We got loads of press coverage for the launch of our new Child Contact Centre service which is great. Here is One Family Director Karen Kiernan on The Last Word with Matt Cooper explaining all about it at 15 minutes into the clip. http://media.todayfm.com/listenback/98/monday/1/popup

Over half a million people live in one-parent families in Ireland

Here are some figures of interest from Census 2011 1 in 8 people in Ireland live in a one-parent family (Census 2011) 567,311 persons out of a general population of 4,588,252. 1 in 4 (25.8%) families with children in Ireland is a one-parent family (Census 2011) 215,315 lone parent families out of 834,266 families with children. We previously reported […]

Join our Panel

One Family is Ireland’s leading organisation for one-parent families. We provide expert support to people parenting alone or sharing parenting and their children through our services, our life-long learning and welfare to work programmes. We are compiling a panel of tutors/trainers(from across Ireland) to assist us in delivering our FETAC accredited programmes which cover personal […]

Are we ready for Single Working Age payment (SWAP)

Media release Embargo: 1pm 13 March, 2012 Are we ready for Single Working Age Payment – Lone parents need flexibility, childcare and jobs One Family welcomes the publication of the Report on the Single Working Age Payment (SWAP) Proposal by the Joint Committee on Jobs, Social Protection and Education. As one of the key organisations […]

Volunteers wanted for Family Day!

One Family is looking for volunteers to help plan our Family Day which takes place on Sunday 13th May in the Iveagh gardens from 11-5pm. Family Day is a national celebration of the diversity of families and family life in Ireland. ‘Mothers’ Day is for mums and ‘Fathers’ Day is for dads but Family Day […]