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Press Release | One-Parent Families Experience Highest Deprivation and Poverty in Ireland – Shameful!

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Press Release One-Parent Families Experience Highest Deprivation and Poverty in Ireland – Shameful! SILC Report 2014 Launched Today www.onefamily.ie (Dublin, Thursday 26th November 2015) One Family – Ireland’s organisation for people parenting alone and sharing parenting – reacts to the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) 2014 results published today, which clearly show that people parenting […]

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Policy | At the Centre of Social Welfare Change

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One Family Director of Policy & Programmes, Stuart Duffin, writes about what should be at the centre of social welfare change. As an election looms for Spring 2016 we need to begin to raising public awareness on the issue of poverty and its effects on health. Our social welfare system is undergoing fundamental change. Reforms affecting many working lone […]

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Press Release | Budget 2016 Let Down for Poor One-Parent Families; Child Benefit Disappointing, Income Disregard Welcome

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Press Release Budget 2016 a Let Down for Poor One-Parent Families Child Benefit Disappointing, Income Disregard Welcome www.onefamily.ie (Dublin, Tuesday 13 October 2015) One Family, Ireland’s organisation for people parenting alone, sharing parenting and separating, today responds to Budget 2016 acknowledging that Government listened to us and the parents we support by providing a modest […]

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Press Release | Government Policies are Failing Poor Families: 30% askonefamily helpline calls increase

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Press Release Government Policies Are Failing Poor Families askonefamily helpline calls up by another 30% One Family Annual Review 2014 www.onefamily.ie (Dublin, Monday 17 August 2015) One Family, Ireland’s organisation for people parenting alone, sharing parenting and separating, launches its Annual Review 2014 as its askonefamily helpline continues to respond to an unprecedented rise in […]

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Policy | OFP Reform – The Real Life Impacts

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In recent months, much has been written and said about both the problems and benefits for one-parent families on social welfare that have been put through the One-Parent Family Payment (OFP) reform process. At the heart of this are the cuts in income faced by many parents who are working part-time and in receipt of social welfare. […]

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