Positive Parenting Comes to Limerick

One-parent family organisation One Family (formerly Cherish) today announced that they will be running their innovative Positive Parenting: Training for Trainers course in Limerick. The course provides all those working with families with the tools to design and deliver effective and life-changing parenting courses. Covering the development of a ten-week Positive Parenting Programme, the training […]

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All Families Not the Same Means All Families Not Equal

One-parent family organisation One Family (formerly Cherish) today called on the Government to look beyond the limitations of today’s All-Party Oireachtas Committee Report on the Constitution and to shape a Constitution that reflects the diversity of family life in Ireland today. Commenting on the report One Family Director, Karen Kiernan noted that ‘the review of […]

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National Anti-Poverty Strategy 2006–2008

One Family welcomes the opportunity to make this submission to the Office for Social Inclusion on the preparation of Ireland’s National Anti-Poverty Strategy 2006–2008. The submission is made in the  context that solo parents are increasingly disadvantaged as a group in Ireland in terms of poverty levels, social welfare dependency and access to services that […]

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Pre-Budget Submission 2006

One Family welcomes the opportunity to make this submission in advance of Budget 2006. One Family has designed its pre-budget submission in the knowledge that the Government is considering significant developments in  the area of support for solo parents and for childcare in Ireland. The submission is also made in the context that solo parents […]

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Submission to the review of provisions relating to family in the Constitution

Submission to the All Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution The changing nature of family life in Ireland Modern family life in Ireland is remarkably different now compared with the period in which our Constitution was first developed.  With declining marriage and birth rates, higher rates of extra marital cohabitation and birth and a growing […]

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Submission in relation to consultation on discussion paper on the rights and duties of cohabitees

One Family broadly welcomes the treatment of the issue of non-marital relationships by the Law Reform Commission on this occasion.  Particularly given that 2004 marks the 10th anniversary of the UN International Year of the Family, it is imperative that current and persistent barriers to the full equality and equal status of all families and […]

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Strategy for Strengthening Families

One Family welcomes the opportunity to make a submission in the process of development of a strategy for strengthening families in this 10th anniversary year of the UN International Year of the Family.  On this occasion One Family will focus the submission on the issues to be considered and recommendations regarding provision within the strategy […]

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Your Education System

One Family is delighted to have an opportunity to submit to the consultation process “Your Education System” regarding educational access and outcomes for solo parents.  It is not our intention on this occasion to focus on the experience of children in one-parent families in education. Your-Education-System-PDF

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National Review of Family Support Services

As a provider of practical support services for one-parent families since 1972 One Family is pleased to be involved in this review.  Our response has been presented in response to the questions as posed in the consultation framework document. National-Review-of-Family-Support-services-06-PDF

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