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
 
Kitty Holland Ireland and Finland take different approaches to single working mothers
 

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When our political parties are asked about child poverty much is revealed in their answers What’s your policy on children? A party-by-party guide
A child in poverty is at higher risk of illness, obesity and premature death. Their education and mental health are and life prospects are profoundly affected. In other words, child poverty interacts closely with all major policy areas, from education and health to housing and local development. Photograph: Dave Thompson/PA Wire The Irish Times view on child poverty: getting our priorities straight
Edward Mernagh, Jen Tymlin, Annabelle (8) and Poppy (5) at their home in Co Wicklow. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw for The Irish Times How families of Ireland’s sickest children can fall into a financial black hole
Inclusion Ireland says reduced timetables are being imposed disproportionately on children with special needs as a means of ‘behavioural management’. Photograph: iStock Children on ‘reduced timetables’ being denied education
Jamie Mangan, who grew up in Dublin 1 and now is a youth worker in the area. Photograph: Dave Meehan Neighbourhood youth projects turn 40
‘I came to tolerate poor behaviour from anyone who, at least, wasn’t hitting me.’ Photograph: Getty The ghost in the nursery: how adversity can harm children
Katherine Zappone and Tanya Ward with, from left, Mary Lou McDonald, Brendan Howlin, Dara Calleary, Regina Doherty, Eamon Ryan, Róisín Shortall and Richard Boyd Barrett. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill National strategy needed to eradicate child poverty, politicians told
Third class students at Our lady of Lourdes National School in Inchicore, Dublin enjoying their hot lunches. Photograph: Alan Betson Hot school meals programme can change lives – principal
Project leader at Barnardos’ Finglas teen-parent and early-years service Mary Corrigan at St Oliver Plunkett junior school, where the service is run. Photograph: Laura Hutton Child homelessness: The worst thing I’ve ever seen

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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