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
 
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Forty-seven reports based on orders made under the Child Care Act are being published by the Child Care Law Reporting Project on its website on Monday. Photograph: iStock Child in care was left with nowhere to go due to financial issues, report finds
Rama Harrak (left) and Alma Harrak left Damascus in 2016. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times ‘Kids living here don’t have a normal childhood’
Chair of the National Review Panel Helen Buckley: ‘We cannot say the infant deaths were directly related to the mothers’ addiction’. File photograph: Eric Luke Deaths of six children known to Tusla associated with ‘substance misuse’
Children’s Rights Alliance chief executive Tanya Ward (centre) with Caroline Fahey of St Vincent de Paul (left) with Labour Party Senators Ivana Bacik and Ged Nash (right), Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin and Leah Speight (representing Bríd Smith TD) during the alliance’s political briefing at Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Doherty rejects call for role specifically tackling child poverty
Michelle O’Brien pictured with her children Tommy, Jamie and Joey at her emergency accommodation in Banagher, Co Offaly. Photograph: Tom O’Hanlon Child homelessness in midlands more than triples in two years
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar with Josepha Madigan, Paschal Donohoe and Richard Bruton at St Laurence O’Toole school in Dublin city for the launch of Creative Youth. File photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons Creative Ireland initiative is not perfect but it is making a difference
Kate Moore: ‘No child should have to feel alone in the face of mental illness’. Photograph: Domnick Walsh ‘When I was 16 everything was fine, then suddenly it wasn’t’
As recently as 2016, an Arts Council/ESRI study found that children from disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to engage with artistic expression. File photograph: Getty The Irish Times view on Cruinniú na nÓg: the artist in every child
Elizabeth Akinwande, who is 15: ‘For seven months I shared a room with two families – my own and the rats.’ Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Elizabeth’s story: My childhood was ‘ripped away’

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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