Advocacy groups welcome costs measures but criticise lack of targeting
‘Most vulnerable will continue to suffer’, lone-parent organisation One Family says
‘I didn’t go through all this for pain for nothing’
Four people on their journeys out of homelessness, and the lessons they have for others
More than 50,000 applications have been made for new pandemic payment
Fear growing among poorest working families they will be hardest hit
Childcare workers and some lone parents dismayed at €94m package
Lone parent group claims fewer chances to train and work under new childcare scheme
Minister open to idea of separate agency for child support payments
Doherty unhappy with current situation whereby courts rule on relatively small sums
Zappone: Poorest families will not lose out over new childcare support scheme
Single parents’ support group expresses scepticism over Minister’s promise
Some poorer single parents may be forced to give up work due to childcare reforms
Changes to subsidised childcare programmes will see some parents lose up to €80 a week
Budget the acid test for how ‘lone parents treated’
‘Lone parents are in crisis . . . a rental and housing crisis,’ claim advocacy groups
Getting into or staying in the workplace can be precarious for a lone parent
Securing a part-time job has allowed a Dublin mother to transform her life at home both financially and psychologically
Investment in services key to ending child poverty, says analyst
Politicians ‘queasy’ about addressing problem as it requires subsidising low-income families
Concern State childcare scheme could ‘increase costs for poorest’
Spark says lone parents on subsidised schemes while in training may have to quit courses
Non-custodial parents told child payments can stop
Yet Department of Social Protection tells custodial parents to seek maintenance
Your serve: the reader replies to The Irish Times Women’s Power List
Readers’ nominations include Micheline Sheehy-Skeffington, Moninne Griffith, Louise Bayliss, Maria Walsh, Emily O’Reilly, Emily Logan, Joanne O’Riordan, Catherine Murphy
Lone-parent groups urge reversal of change in payments
About 29,400 people moving out of scheme to alternative social welfare payments
Minister calls for an end to girls’ and boys’ schools
Co-education benefits young men and women, says Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
‘Comprehensive’ law to protect whistleblowers comes into effect
Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin says Act sets a new standard in terms of international best practice for whistleblower protection
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