NO CHILD 2020  

It shall be the first duty of the Government of the Republic to... secure that NO CHILD shall suffer hunger or cold from lack of food, clothing, or shelter, but that all shall be provided with the means and facilities requisite for their proper education and training as Citizens...

Declaration of 1st Dáil, January 1919

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No Child 2020: The project These policy ideas are starting points in a strategy to eliminate child poverty
 
Fintan O'Toole The problems children face in Ireland and the policies that could solve them
 
A daily school meal is a proven intervention in tackling child poverty. Our short-term ask was for a grants scheme to install cooking facilities in schools and childcare settings
What it achieved No Child 2020 set out long and short-term goals to improve children's lives
 

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A daily school meal is a proven intervention in tackling child poverty. Our short-term ask was for a grants scheme to install cooking facilities in schools and childcare settings No Child 2020: Its five demands, and what it achieved
No Child 2020: Ireland, as one of the richest societies in the world, can provide for every child. But we are failing in that duty Fintan O’Toole: Did the Irish Times ‘No Child 2020’ project work?
Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe allocated €4 million towards hot school meals for an additional 35,000 children in Budget 2020. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Times The time has come to end child poverty once and for all
Kirsty Spencer with her children outside their hub accommodation, in Drumcondra in Dublin. Photograph: Alan Betson It’s our fourth homeless Christmas, our third in a ‘family hub’
More than 100 reports of suspected abuse or neglect of children in homeless accommodation were received by Tusla in the first eight months of the year, new figures show. File photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times. Over 100 reports of suspected abuse, neglect of homeless children filed
Budget 2020 marked a shift in the right direction, child advocates believe. Photograph: Getty Images Budget took important ‘small steps’ on No Child 2020 themes
Young girls from Mount Carmel Girls Secondary School at the Famine Memorial statues on Custom House Quay, Dublin, Photograph: Laura Hutton/The Irish Times Eradication of poverty event told of direct provision hardship
Free meals for children are a recognised, targeted intervention to tackle child poverty. File photograph: Getty Free school meals pilot scheme to be allocated €160,000 in 2020
Tracy Carroll and her daughter Willow at their home. Photograph: Tom Honan Children of Jack and Jill: ‘You worry you might get that call’

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No Child 2020 is an initiative by The Irish Times, providing a sustained focus on child welfare and children’s issues