# department-of-children - Tuesday 21 June, 2022
# Childcare
# Childcare
Under the Government’s core funding model, fees will be frozen at the rate that was in place in September 2021.
# department-of-children - Monday 13 June, 2022
# Baby On Board
# Baby On Board
The bundles will be distributed to 500 newborns and their parents.
# department-of-children - Tuesday 17 May, 2022
# Conversion Therapy
# Conversion Therapy
Roderic O’Gorman said the research will inform legislation to ban the controversial practice in Ireland.
# department-of-children - Thursday 16 September, 2021
# Mother And Baby Homes
Survivors of mother and baby institutions have been told to submit FOI requests, despite already applying under GDPR A number of women are considering legal action, Órla Ryan reports Noelle Brown says the latest development is "despicable" and "ridiculous"
# department-of-children - Thursday 5 August, 2021
# Baby Boxes
# Baby Boxes
The Department has said work will be progressed this autumn.
# department-of-children - Saturday 29 May, 2021
# Childcare Crossroads
# Childcare Crossroads
The National Women’s Council says inadequate State investment in childcare has led to an unsustainable system in crisis.
# department-of-children - Friday 28 May, 2021
# Data Protection
# Data Protection
The department is asking for individuals’ contact details in case their data is in records requested under GDPR.
# department-of-children - Sunday 25 April, 2021
# Dept Of Children
# Dept Of Children
She lodged a complaint about the department’s ‘failure to comply with the assurances’ provided to her.
# department-of-children - Thursday 15 April, 2021
# Conversion Therapy
It's been confirmed officials have prepared a scoping paper and are engaging with the Department of Health. The move comes after a new cross-party all-island coalition this week called for the practice to be banned. O'Gorman said Government must be "proactive" in banning such practices.
# department-of-children - Sunday 4 April, 2021
# Redress
# Redress
Some survivors have also called on the government to take legal action against the religious orders who ran the institutions if they refuse to pay financial compensation.
# department-of-children - Thursday 25 March, 2021
# Email Addresses
# Email Addresses
Those affected by the breach are “deeply upset and distressed” by the sharing of their email addresses without their consent.
# Bethany Home
# Bethany Home
Leinster, who was born in Bethany Home in Dublin in 1941, has campaigned for redress for over 20 years.
# department-of-children - Thursday 25 February, 2021
# Department Of Children
# Department Of Children
Around 100,000 records are expected to be moved to the Department of Children next week.
# department-of-children - Thursday 4 February, 2021
# Department Of Children
# Department Of Children
The department appointed former Labour Court chairman and barrister Dr Kevin Duffy as the independent chairman of the process.
# department-of-children - Thursday 29 October, 2020
# Legal Questions
# Legal Questions
A legal expert has questioned whether the second of the tests is a ‘legal error’.
# department-of-children - Thursday 23 July, 2020
# Childcare Voices
# Childcare Voices
Prevention and Early Intervention expert Marian Quinn outlines the need for a reimagined after-school sector on the other side of Covid-19.
# department-of-children - Wednesday 22 July, 2020
# Childcare Voices
# Childcare Voices
Childcare centre owners Sarah O’Leary and and Michele Akerlind explain how better investment can build a well paid and affordable childcare sector.
# department-of-children - Tuesday 21 July, 2020
# Childcare Voices
# Childcare Voices
In the latest in our Childcare Voices series, Darragh O’Connor of SIPTU outlines why the trade union is calling for big changes in pay and affordability in the sector.
# department-of-children - Monday 20 July, 2020
# Childcare Voices
# Childcare Voices
Mother Lynda Butler outlines the impact of childcare costs for her first daughter and how high fees are making her think twice about having a second child.
# department-of-children - Wednesday 15 July, 2020
# Childcare Troubles
# Childcare Troubles
70% of childcare providers are yet to reopen, with only 22% operating at full capacity.
# department-of-children - Thursday 11 June, 2020
# Your Say
# Your Say
A proposal to merge the Department of Children with the Department of Education is being considered.
# department-of-children - Thursday 30 January, 2020
# Childcare
# Childcare
Creche owners had been told the department will not fund an alternative day to make up time for the protest.
# department-of-children - Sunday 15 December, 2019
# Safeguarding
# Safeguarding
Early drafts of a letter that caused a row between the agency and Scouting Ireland contained stronger criticism of the organisation than the final version.
# department-of-children - Thursday 1 August, 2019
# Creche Scandal
# Creche Scandal
The figure was revealed at an Oireachtas committee hearing yesterday morning.
# department-of-children - Friday 6 July, 2018
# St Patrick's Guild
# St Patrick's Guild
There may be more people than the 126 identified so far caught up in the St Patrick’s Guild adoption scandal.
# department-of-children - Sunday 14 January, 2018
# Outrage
# Outrage
The introduction of a universal subsidy for childcare in September saw many creches across the country raise their fees at the same time.
# department-of-children - Monday 19 December, 2016
# Equality
# Equality
The activist will lead a group to develop a strategy for young LGBT people.
# department-of-children - Friday 25 September, 2015
# Survivors
# Survivors
Dublin councillor Francis Timmons, who grew up in a mother and baby home in the 1970s, is calling for James Reilly to take a look at redress schemes for survivors.
# department-of-children - Sunday 17 May, 2015
# Rock And A Hard Place
# Rock And A Hard Place
Ireland has some fairly progressive childcare measures in place, yet still child-minding businesses are going to the wall.
# department-of-children - Thursday 11 September, 2014
# Young Offenders
# Young Offenders
The schools are on the same campus but are to be brought under one director.
# department-of-children - Tuesday 8 July, 2014
# Mother And Baby
# Mother And Baby
I shudder to imagine what those mothers and their beautiful babies went through. But we need to ask the difficult question: is this the correct use of funds that children living today so badly need?
# department-of-children - Thursday 11 July, 2013
# Homelessness
# Homelessness
A six-year investigation into youth homelessness in Ireland has called for ‘more fluid systems of intervention’.
# department-of-children - Wednesday 1 February, 2012
# Missing Children
# Missing Children
The hotline number was reserved for over four years before ComReg received an application to operate it.
# department-of-children - Sunday 31 July, 2011
# HSE
# HSE
Gordon Jeyes was recorded giving a lecture at UCD in which he criticised the HSE and questioned the mandatory reporting of child abuse suspicions.
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