Documents for the Policy page.

Policy submission on the EU Child Guarantee

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Policy update

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We hope you and your family are keeping safe and well. Over the week we have been busy on a number of different policy areas that are important to the families we represent. Access: We have updated our guidance [link] on how to manage access issues several times following regulations on the issue from government, […]

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One Family submission to Citizen’s Assembly on Gender Equality

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About One Family One Family, founded in 1972 as Cherish, is Ireland’s organisation for people parenting alone, sharing parenting and separating.  One Family believes in an Ireland where every family is cherished equally, and enjoys the social, financial and legal equality to create their own positive future. We do two main things – we offer […]

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One Family’s Election Manifesto 2020

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One Family’s Election Manifesto 2020 Families living in makeshift accommodation and children going without a warm meal shouldn’t happen in Ireland. It’s not who we are. But every night thousands of children and families go without these basic needs, caught in a broken system that pulls them under. It doesn’t have to be this way. […]

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Moving from Welfare to Work:  Low Work Intensity Households and the Quality of Supportive Services 

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Report by the National Economic and Social Council of Ireland (NESC) – Launch and Seminar. The report is co-authored by One Family Board Chair, Dr Anne Marie McGauran, and Dr Helen Johnston, both working in the NESC and can be downloaded here. FINDINGS: In Ireland the percentage of people living in households where no-one is […]

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