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Friday 29 September 2023 Dublin: 16°C

# department of children

This month
September 2023
# State Care
Reports about welfare of children in State care deleted amid GDPR concerns
Peadar Tóibín TD described the Minister’s actions as “impossible to comprehend”, saying that the decision is an example of “GDPR overreach”.
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Sep 16th 2023, 3:36 PM
# Foster Care crisis
Most carers wouldn't recommend fostering children due to financial strain, survey finds
The IFCA fears that an ‘exodus’ of foster carers is looming.
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Sep 2nd 2023, 10:05 AM
This year
2023
# Growing Up
Pandemic had no impact on the 'vast majority' of 13-year-olds' transition to secondary school
Just under 100% of 13-year-olds agreed that they had made new friends in second-level education.
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Jul 10th 2023, 6:30 AM
# Teacher Influencers
Calls for Govt to tell 'influencer teachers' to stop paid posts for Horse Racing Ireland in schools
A Labour TD has said children are being treated as ‘pawns’ by teachers being paid to promote HRI online.
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Jul 5th 2023, 6:48 PM
THE MORNING LEAD
'The system is broken': Carlow toddler with scoliosis without therapy due to staffing crisis
A report by
Eimer McAuley
“There is no one for us to pick up the phone to,” Shannon’s mum said.
Mother-of-five Yvonne Proctor speaks to The Journal about her "fight with the system".
Her daughter Shannon was diagnosed with scoliosis after her parents noticed that she was holding her neck to one side.
The Proctor family feels that, despite the huge financial burden, they will now have to go private to get Shannon therapy services.
Donnelly says child scoliosis patients should receive surgery within four months under new plan
Waiting lists for children's surgeries to be tackled by extending operating theatre hours
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Jul 5th 2023, 12:03 AM
# bloom 2023
Woodland garden focusing on outdoor play for children wins gold medal at Bloom
The festival was officially opened by President Michael D Higgins this morning.
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Jun 1st 2023, 11:20 AM
# bundle of joy
500 pilot 'baby bundles' to be delivered to new parents this week
The bundles contain essentials for new parents and their baby such as clothes and a changing bag.
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May 8th 2023, 7:00 AM
# Refugees
'I cried with my daughter': Ukrainians given four days to leave Dublin hotel and find new school
Two sisters with five, eight, and sixteen year old children are being moved across Dublin after living in a hotel for the last year.
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Mar 10th 2023, 12:10 AM
# Tender
Government seeks experts to ensure Mother and Baby Home redress scheme doesn't break GDPR rules
The successful applicant will have to ensure the operation of the scheme is fully compliant with all national and EU data protection laws.
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Feb 23rd 2023, 6:30 AM
# Excavation
Tuam mother and baby home site will finally be excavated after Director is appointed next month
Relatives have welcomed the news but said there can be no further delays.
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Jan 7th 2023, 7:30 AM
Last year
2022
# ukrainians in ireland
Plan to move Ukrainians living in Dundalk hotel scrapped
The group of around 50 people were told on Friday that they would be transferred from the Crowne Plaza Hotel to several other areas.
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Dec 19th 2022, 12:48 PM
# information and tracing act
'A historic moment': Adopted people can access information about their birth from today
The new law allows people who were adopted or boarded out to access information about their origins.
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Oct 3rd 2022, 10:20 AM
# Foster parents
Fostering allowance becoming insufficient amid cost-of-living crisis, say carers
The allowance paid to foster parents has not increased since 2009.
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Aug 6th 2022, 7:00 AM
# baby on board
State parental leave expanded to seven weeks
New parents can now take up to seven weeks leave as part of measures introduced by the Departments of Children and Social Protection.
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Jul 1st 2022, 1:25 PM
# Childcare
Creches say planned fee freeze for childcare costs in September 'unworkable'
Under the Government’s core funding model, fees will be frozen at the rate that was in place in September 2021.
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Jun 21st 2022, 6:20 PM
# baby on board
Pilot 'baby bundles' to be given to new parents
The bundles will be distributed to 500 newborns and their parents.
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Jun 13th 2022, 6:30 AM
# Conversion Therapy
Research to inform conversion therapy ban expected by end of summer
Roderic O’Gorman said the research will inform legislation to ban the controversial practice in Ireland.
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May 17th 2022, 4:14 PM
All time
# mother and baby homes
Survivors consider legal action to get health records amid 'bizarre' row with department
Survivors of mother and baby institutions have been told to submit FOI requests to get access to their records, despite already applying under GDPR.
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 'in breach of EU law' unless it gives health records to Mother and Baby Home survivors
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Sep 16th 2021, 12:05 AM
# baby boxes
Rollout of baby boxes to new parents delayed as Department undertakes consultation
The Department has said work will be progressed this autumn.
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Aug 5th 2021, 6:00 AM
Voices
Opinion: Without a public childcare model there can be no equality for women
The National Women’s Council says inadequate State investment in childcare has led to an unsustainable system in crisis.
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May 29th 2021, 7:01 PM
# Data Protection
People identified in Mother and Baby Home records asked to contact Department of Children
The department is asking for individuals’ contact details in case their data is in records requested under GDPR.
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May 28th 2021, 5:52 PM
# dept of children
Illegal adoption investigator says she was treated 'disrespectfully and in an unprofessional manner' by Dept
She lodged a complaint about the department’s ‘failure to comply with the assurances’ provided to her.
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Apr 25th 2021, 12:05 AM
# Conversion Therapy
'A person's sexual orientation is not up for debate': O'Gorman moves to outlaw conversion therapy in Ireland
The move comes after a new cross-party all-island coalition this week called for the practice to be banned.
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.
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Apr 15th 2021, 5:03 PM
# Redress
'Pay us and acknowledge what happened': Mother and baby home survivors want compensation and a remembrance day
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.
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Apr 4th 2021, 12:05 AM
# Email Addresses
Department apologises after 'careless' data breach of people attending mother and baby home redress meetings
Those affected by the breach are “deeply upset and distressed” by the sharing of their email addresses without their consent.
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Mar 25th 2021, 4:12 PM
# Bethany Home
Campaigner Derek Leinster says Protestant survivors and those living abroad 'not a priority' for redress
Leinster, who was born in Bethany Home in Dublin in 1941, has campaigned for redress for over 20 years.
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Mar 25th 2021, 6:05 AM
# department of children
Data Protection Commissioner: Transfer of Mother and Baby Homes records to Dept could be 'high risk'
Around 100,000 records are expected to be moved to the Department of Children next week.
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Feb 25th 2021, 3:59 PM
# department of children
Report on pay levels in childcare sector to be finalised in coming days
The department appointed former Labour Court chairman and barrister Dr Kevin Duffy as the independent chairman of the process.
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Feb 4th 2021, 8:17 PM
# Legal questions
'Two tests' to be applied for Mother and Baby Home survivors to seek access to records
A legal expert has questioned whether the second of the tests is a ‘legal error’.
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Oct 29th 2020, 8:38 AM
Voices
‘Children's needs should be the priority for after-school services’
Prevention and Early Intervention expert Marian Quinn outlines the need for a reimagined after-school sector on the other side of Covid-19.
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Jul 23rd 2020, 7:00 AM
Voices
‘Without state interventions many childcare providers will go out of business’
Childcare centre owners Sarah O’Leary and and Michele Akerlind explain how better investment can build a well paid and affordable childcare sector.
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Jul 22nd 2020, 7:00 AM
Voices
‘Time to radically reform childcare and break the tension between fees and quality’
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.
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Jul 21st 2020, 7:00 AM
Voices
‘We are essentially paying out a second mortgage in childcare every month’
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.
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Jul 20th 2020, 7:00 AM
# childcare troubles
Hundreds of childcare providers say they won't be able to stay open without more government supports
70% of childcare providers are yet to reopen, with only 22% operating at full capacity.
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Jul 15th 2020, 6:05 AM
# Your Say
Poll: Should the Department of Children be scrapped?
A proposal to merge the Department of Children with the Department of Education is being considered.
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Jun 11th 2020, 8:56 AM
# Childcare
Zappone reverses funding cut for creches on day of protest action next week
Creche owners had been told the department will not fund an alternative day to make up time for the protest.
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Jan 30th 2020, 1:49 PM
# Safeguarding
Internal Tusla documents reveal staff complained of poor engagement from Scouting Ireland
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.
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Dec 15th 2019, 12:05 AM
# Creche scandal
Department of Children doesn't know identity of 37 childcare facilities at 'critical' level of risk
The figure was revealed at an Oireachtas committee hearing yesterday morning.
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Aug 1st 2019, 5:36 PM
# St Patrick's Guild
Adoption scandal: Officials questioned whether telling those affected would 'do more harm than good'
There may be more people than the 126 identified so far caught up in the St Patrick’s Guild adoption scandal.
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Jul 6th 2018, 12:05 AM
# Outrage
'Laughable', 'a joke', 'cynical', 'opportunistic' - Zappone brought to task by parents over childcare fees crisis
The introduction of a universal subsidy for childcare in September saw many creches across the country raise their fees at the same time.
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Jan 14th 2018, 9:00 PM
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