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Policy | Impacts of Budget 2012 Still Felt Today

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Five years ago today, on Tuesday 5 December 2011, former Ministers Joan Burton and Brendan Howlin rose in the Dáil to read out Budget 2012. None of us could have anticipated just how horrendous it would be for poor one-parent families, and how long-reaching the impacts of the cuts announced. There was no evidence of […]

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Policy | DSP will Review Changes to One Parent Family Payment

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The Department of Social Protection agreed to review the changes to the One Parent Family Payment (OFP) at Committee stage of the Social Welfare Bill 2016 on Thursday 17 November. It is essential that review of the OFP reform be carried out urgently, as One Family has consistently called for. A cohesive report on the potential outcomes should have been conducted […]

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Press Release | Lone Parents Thwarted by Systemic Barriers to Accessing Education

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Press Release Lone Parents Thwarted by Systemic Barriers to Accessing Education Improving access to education and employment for parents will lead to ending child poverty. (Dublin, Monday 8 August 2016) One Family – Ireland’s organisation for people parenting alone, sharing parenting, and separating – again calls on Government to remove the systemic barriers to education […]

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Press Release | Ireland’s First National Shared Parenting Survey Launched Today

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Press Release Ireland’s First National Shared Parenting Survey Launched Today One Family will finally capture the reality for thousands of parents and children in Ireland who are not recognised (Dublin, Monday 4th July 2016) Today One Family – Ireland’s organisation for people parenting alone, sharing parenting, and separating – launches the first National Survey on […]

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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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