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Cherish CLG t/a One Family
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8 Coke Lane, Dublin, D07 EN2Y
01 662 9212
info@onefamily.ie
Cherish CLG t/a One Family
Company no 45364
Charity no 6525
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An International Women’s Day Focus – Mother’s Education Level
Press Release An International Women’s Day Focus – Mother’s Education Level and Impacts on Lone Parenthood and Well-Being of Children (Dublin, Friday 7th February 2014) One Family – Ireland’s leading organisation for one-parent families in Ireland today – looks forward to acknowledgment of International Women’s Day on Saturday 8th March and calls for a new […]
10 Ways to Build and Maintain a Close Relationship with your Teenager
As part of our ’10 Ways to …’ series which offers tips for parents on a variety of topics, here are our ‘10 Ways to Build and Maintain a Close Relationship with your Teenager‘. Talk with them: Talking to your teenager, not at them, is the key to good communication. Listen: Listen to what they […]
Survey on Income Disregards
Would you like to contribute to our Budget 2015 submission? It’s easy – simply take our anonymous 3 question survey. Each short monthly survey has a focus on a different budget submission topic. This month’s survey is on changes to the One-Parent Family Payment (OFP) and income disregards introduced on 2nd January 2014. Take the survey […]
10 Ways to Healthier Eating
As part of our ’10 Ways to …’ series which offers tips for parents on a variety of topics, here are our ‘10 Ways to Healthier Eating‘. Menu: Plan the menu for the week ahead and make a list of the ingredients you will need. When you make a trip to the supermarket, stick to […]
10 Ways to Survive Working and Being a Parent of Young Children
As part of our ’10 Ways to …’ series which offers tips for parents on a variety of topics, here are our ‘10 Ways to Survive Working Outside of the Home and Being a Parent of Young Children’. Be organised: Over organise everything – lunches, dinners, clothes. Cook and freeze: At the weekend, cook some […]
10 Ways to Make Reading a Part of Family Life
As part of our ’10 Ways to …’ series which offers tips for parents on a variety of topics, here are our ‘10 Ways to Make Reading a Part of Family Life‘. Join the library. The whole family could take a trip to the local library and sign up. It’s free! Find out what’s happening […]
Children and Family Relationships Bill is a Good First Step but We Have Concerns
Press Release Children & Family Relationships Bill provides first steps to a modern Family Law system in Ireland – but One Family warns that family law courts need the resources to do their job properly for all children (Dublin, Thursday 30 January 2014) One Family – Ireland’s leading organisation for one-parent families in Ireland today […]
Families and Societies Stakeholder Seminar
The future of our families. What policies can do for children in vulnerable situations. On 28th January 2014, leading experts from research, policy, and NGOs met in Brussels to discuss the most recent evidence on children in vulnerable situations and the potential scope of policy interventions. Stuart Duffin, our Director of Policy and Programmes, was a […]
Step Out with One Family at the Flora Women’s Mini Marathon
We invite you to Step Out with One Family and run/walk in the Mini Marathon as part of Team One Family. As Ireland’s leading organisation for people parenting alone and sharing parenting, and in the year of the 20th anniversary of UN International Year of the Family, we need people more than ever to take […]
Join our Budget 2015 Panel
Let your voice be heard! One Family is seeking willing participants to engage with our Budget 2015 Panel. The Budget Panel will consist of ten lone parents and/or parents sharing parenting who will collaborate with One Family throughout 2014. Panel members will be encouraged to contribute their own lived experience and personal circumstances in order […]
Update on the Single Person Child Carer Credit
Many worried parents are calling our askonefamily lo-call helpline regarding the Single Person Child Carer Credit which has replaced the One-Parent Family Credit from 1st January 2014. The Single Person Child Carer Credit (SPCCC) is different from the One-Parent Family Credit (OPFC) as now it is only available to one parent – the parent with whom the child […]
One Family Participating in EU Families and Societies Project
One Family is one of twenty experts and stakeholders from across Europe contributing to Families and Societies, a large-scale integrating project on the factors that define and shape what families will look like in the future, coordinated through Stockholm University. The projects runs until 31 January 2017. Questions being addressed include: Are existing social and family […]
Cherish All The Children – a Documentary about our Groundbreaking Founders
“A one hour documentary that tells the story of brave single mothers who took on the government.” Cherish All The Children is the remarkable story of One Family’s founders; those brave women who refused to give up their children for adoption 40 years ago. They formed Cherish, changed the law on illegitimacy and fought to get […]
One Family Welcomes 2014 as the 20th Anniversary of the UN Year of the Family
2014 is the 20th anniversary of the United Nations International Year of the Family. One Family has been working to mark this anniversary and marks the UN International Day of the Family every year here in Ireland. One Family has signed up to the Declaration of the Civil Society on the occasion of the 20th […]
New Report Proves Marriage is not Responsible for Children’s Well-being
Press Release New Report Proves Marriage is not Responsible for Children’s Well-being (Dublin, Friday 20 December 2013) One Family, Ireland’s leading organisation for one-parent families, welcomes the launch today of the report ‘Growing Up in a One-Parent Family’, a study by researchers at the University of Limerick using the ‘Growing Up in Ireland’ data, published […]
One Family Winter Party
Our annual Winter Party for current clients and their children took place yesterday in the beautiful Dublin Castle. It was great fun with almost 100 children and their families enthralled by master magician, Brian Daly. Little faces were painted by our creative staff team; and all kinds of amazing balloon animals and toys created by Cathyrn Alexander. […]
Convention on the Constitution Announces Topics for Review
The Convention on the Constitution has just announced that it has chosen Dáil Reform and Economic, Social and Cultural rights for discussion at their final two meetings in February 2014. It is noted that the Family is included as one of the other prominent topics throughout the process and that “it is likely that the […]
CETS Programme to be expanded to include CE Participants
One Family has advocated for the Childcare Education and Training Support (CETS) Programme to be expanded to include CE Participants as the lack of access to affordable childcare is a barrier to participation for parents with young children, particularly lone parents. We are pleased to have received notification that it is being expanded from 1 January […]
Government has hindered not helped One-Parent Families in 2013
Press Release Government has hindered not helped One-Parent Families in 2013 (Dublin, Tuesday 10 December 2013) One Family, Ireland’s leading organisation for one-parent families, campaigned for 10 Solutions. No Cuts. in the lead up to Budget 2014. These ten solutions are practical and economic measures that would greatly improve the quality of the lives of […]
One-Parent Family Payment Income Disregard Change
Later this week, the Department of Social Protection will be issuing letters to affected One-Parent Family Payment (OFP) recipients informing them that, from 1 January 2014, the OFP scheme’s income disregard will be reduced from its current amount of €110 per week to €90 per week for the duration of 2014. In Budget 2012, it […]