Family Rights Organisations join call to remove proposed reductions to the social welfare entitlements of divorced and separated lone parents

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One Family and Treoir backed FLAC’s call for the Bereaved Partner’s Pension Bill 2025 to be amended to delete its proposals to remove the entitlement of people who are divorced or separated to a survivors’ pensions if their former partner dies (such entitlement has been in place for almost 20 years). Collectively, we are strongly […]

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Systemic barriers are stopping lone parents returning to education  

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One Family, Ireland’s national organisation for one-parent families, has warned the rise in poverty rates in lone-parent families show Government policies designed to tackle poverty are failing. The warning comes as the latest Survey on Income and Living Conditions 2024 confirms a pattern of consistent deprivation in one-parent families, rising to 46.3%. Once again, in 2024, the CSO Survey identified single-adult households with children under 18, as the most impacted families in Ireland.

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PRESS RELEASE: Time for a New Chapter on International Single Parents Day

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One Family, Ireland’s national organisation for one-parent families, has warned the rise in poverty rates in lone-parent families show Government policies designed to tackle poverty are failing. The warning comes as the latest Survey on Income and Living Conditions 2024 confirms a pattern of consistent deprivation in one-parent families, rising to 46.3%. Once again, in 2024, the CSO Survey identified single-adult households with children under 18, as the most impacted families in Ireland.

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PRESS RELEASE: One-Parent Families in Ireland Once Again Most Impacted by Poverty

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One Family, Ireland’s national organisation for one-parent families, has warned the rise in poverty rates in lone-parent families show Government policies designed to tackle poverty are failing. The warning comes as the latest Survey on Income and Living Conditions 2024 confirms a pattern of consistent deprivation in one-parent families, rising to 46.3%. Once again, in 2024, the CSO Survey identified single-adult households with children under 18, as the most impacted families in Ireland.

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PRESS RELEASE: Call for award-winning employability programme aimed at lone parents to be rolled out nationally  

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One Family, Ireland’s national organisation for one-parent families, calls for its award-winning employability programme to be rolled out nationally … 

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