# parents - Friday 22 January, 2021
# Supreme Court
# Supreme Court
The boy, known as John, suffered a devastating brain injury in road crash in 2020.
# parents - Thursday 21 January, 2021
# Parents
# Parents
Schools for children with special educational needs were due to re-open today.
# parents - Friday 8 January, 2021
# Pregnancy
# Pregnancy
Some hospitals adapted their visiting restrictions for difficult situations such as pregnancy loss, stillbirth and unexpected complications.
# parents - Tuesday 1 December, 2020
# Children's Rights
# Children's Rights
Over 6,000 children are currently overdue an assessment of their needs.
# parents - Wednesday 7 October, 2020
# Services Cut
# Services Cut
Day services have only reopened at 40% capacity.
# parents - Monday 28 September, 2020
# Vaccination
# Vaccination
“The flu vaccine is one of the safest vaccines we have, it’s one of the oldest vaccines we have,” a GP said.
# parents - Wednesday 24 June, 2020
# Concerned Parents
# Concerned Parents
A quarter of parents are either “very” or “extremely” concerned about their children’s mental health.
# parents - Wednesday 10 June, 2020
# Childcare
# Childcare
A €75 million funding package has been announced.
# parents - Wednesday 11 December, 2019
# New Sex Ed Plan
# New Sex Ed Plan
The minister said the ethos of the school is central to any curriculum and will be protected.
# parents - Sunday 10 November, 2019
# Smartphones
# Smartphones
Parents and teachers need to be better equipped to talk to young people about sex and relationships, Noeline Blackwell has said.
# parents - Monday 21 October, 2019
# Equality
# Equality
The protest was held this afternoon outside the Department of Health building in Dublin.
# parents - Monday 7 October, 2019
# New Parents
# New Parents
New legislation will provide for extra paid leave for each parent of a child who is born, or adopted, from 1 November 2019.
# parents - Saturday 28 September, 2019
# Budget 2020
# Budget 2020
A tax-free threshold on transfers between parents and their children currently stands at €320,000.
# parents - Wednesday 14 August, 2019
# Your Say
# Your Say
Parents can be asked to pay between €60 to €115.
# parents - Thursday 1 August, 2019
# Back To School
# Back To School
That’s according to the Barnardos School Costs Survey, published today.
# parents - Thursday 25 July, 2019
# Unpaid Leave
# Unpaid Leave
This will increase the unpaid parental leave from 18 weeks to 22 weeks from 1 September 2019.
# parents - Saturday 4 May, 2019
# Family First
From The42
# Family First
A look through Leanne Kiernan’s rise to the top, through the highs and the lows, ahead of today’s FA Cup final.
# parents - Monday 15 April, 2019
# Michigan
# Michigan
The 40-year-old man’s father told him he had done him a favour by getting rid of his 12 boxes of films and magazines.
# parents - Wednesday 13 March, 2019
# Family Courts
# Family Courts
An Oireachtas committee will today hear from various interest groups about proposals to reform the family law system.
# parents - Sunday 3 March, 2019
# Opinion
# Opinion
Philippa Perry writes about how not to shut children down, which might only encourage them not to talk to you about big and small things.
# parents - Saturday 16 February, 2019
# Careday19
# Careday19
A number of young people shared their experiences yesterday and said they want to erase the stigma attached to being in the care system.
# parents - Friday 11 January, 2019
# Parenting
# Parenting
The changes will resolve a number of difficulties in the registration of donor assisted births.
# parents - Tuesday 9 October, 2018
# Budget 2019
# Budget 2019
The measure will be introduced from November 2019.
# parents - Wednesday 26 September, 2018
# Opinion
# Opinion
Bookseller Lorraine Levis advises parents on how to raise a book-loving child in a screen-loving era.
# parents - Monday 3 September, 2018
# Opinion
# Opinion
The desire to protect and care for your child is indescribable, writes Eric Nolan. And that means doing your best to keep them safe.
# parents - Wednesday 29 August, 2018
# Jastine Valdez
# Jastine Valdez
Jastine was abducted and murdered by Mark Hennessy in May of this year.
# parents - Monday 25 June, 2018
# Social Protection
# Social Protection
It is paid at a rate of €125 for children aged 4-11 and €250 for children aged 12 years and over.
# parents - Monday 4 June, 2018
# Education
# Education
Parents may not be fully aware of the vast range of science and technology careers available, Dr Des Fitzgerald said.
# parents - Sunday 3 June, 2018
# Every Little Helps
# Every Little Helps
Volunteers spend time with sick children in hospital, doing crafts, reading to them or playing games with them.
# parents - Sunday 25 March, 2018
# Cervical Cancer
# Cervical Cancer
Since September 2016 the uptake rate for the vaccine has increased from 51% to 62%.
# parents - Sunday 18 February, 2018
# Parents
# Parents
The doctors said that face paint the boy was wearing might have been oil-based, which would have reacted with the spark.
# parents - Wednesday 31 January, 2018
# Smartphones
# Smartphones
The digital age of consent in Ireland is 13.
# parents - Thursday 11 January, 2018
# No Fair
From The Daily Edge
# No Fair
“My mom wouldn’t let me watch the birth scene in the Spice Girls movie.”
# parents - Tuesday 2 January, 2018
# Budget 2019
# Budget 2019
Many people currently pay cash to their childminder, but this new measure would ensure these minders receive the benefits of any employee.
# parents - Monday 25 December, 2017
# Home
# Home
The number of children in Romania’s orphanages has plummeted from more than 100,000 in the 80s to about 7,000.
# parents - Wednesday 8 November, 2017
# Newborns
# Newborns
“We have to take a wider societal view and not think of rearing children as something best done in one’s spare time, preferably by women,” Deirdre Clune said.
# parents - Saturday 2 September, 2017
# Homelessness
# Homelessness
New figures show there were 2,423 children in emergency accommodation in the Dublin at the end of July.
# parents - Wednesday 16 August, 2017
# Hip Hip Hurray
# Hip Hip Hurray
All he wants is a cake but I know other parents will expect more, writes Chrissie Russell.
# parents - Friday 4 August, 2017
# Childcare
# Childcare
The review will take 10 months to complete and will inform Minister Katherine Zappone’s future budget decisions.
# parents - Wednesday 26 July, 2017
# Childcare
# Childcare
Family childcare comes at a price that can be difficult to define, writes Chrissie Russell.
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