Up to 80% of parents believe children negatively affected by cost-of-living crisis
Barnardos survey finds 30% of respondents did not have enough food to feed children at some point over last year
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Thousands of vulnerable children’s records ‘may be destroyed’ in coming weeks
Concerns mounting for contents that could include children’s letters, poems or accounts of personal events
I tried to tell the GP I was seeing things but he ‘gave me eczema cream’
Survey results suggest about half of children in Ireland live with a parent with poor mental health for at least part of childhood
Children and separation: ‘I had so much fear of people seeing inside our snow globe of doom’
Barnardos report warns high-conflict parental separation has a ‘profound’ impact on children
Risk of poverty rate highest in several years, according to CSO
People living in rented accommodation were more likely to be at risk of poverty at 24.2 per cent
Social media ban risks pushing children towards ‘unregulated spaces’, committee hears
Catherine Cross, of the National Parents Council, described the introduction of bans on young people accessing social media as ‘a blunt instrument’
Barnardos children’s charity accused of ‘ploy’ to shut down employment dispute
Former worker says 2021 redundancy was an unfair termination of her employment
Tusla funding boost should be top budget priority, say 150 children’s organisations
Children’s Rights Alliance says child protection and welfare services must be prioritised
Cost of starting secondary school in Ireland now tops €1,100
Many parents worried about costs, with only 34% saying they will be manageable
At a time when the boom is even boomer, this statistic should mortify us
The stark fact is that there are students sitting Junior and Leaving Cert exams today who went to bed hungry last night
We have seen an increase in school refusals among older children
It’s vital to improve engagement with school, because childhood lasts a lifetime
Breakfast clubs in Deis primary schools: ‘If it wasn’t here and you’d had no breakfast you’d be on the yard hungry’
Calls increasing for expansion of breakfast clubs to all Deis primary schools amid rising deprivation
Almost 9,000 children in direct provision not eligible for double child benefit payment
Children’s Rights Alliance calls for urgent delivery of the International Protection Child Payment to address poverty s
Kyran Durnin case: How can a child go missing for two years?
Locals in Dundalk express bafflement and shock at disappearance of boy in 2022, when he was aged six
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