No Child 2020

A special project by The Irish Times providing a sustained focus on child welfare and children's issues over the year.

Children of Jack and Jill: ‘You worry you might get that call’

Tracy Carroll is grateful to the Jack and Jill foundation for helping her daughter Willow

‘I have hard days, days here crying over him for hours’

The Jack and Jill nurse helping a severely disabled child and his mother is providing a very special service

Children have a right to access art and culture

Ratification of UN children’s convention in 1992 committed State to targeted cultural investment

Hot school meals for all a solid start in battle against child poverty

We trail our European cousins when it comes to providing nourishment to school children

Minister open to idea of separate agency for child support payments

Doherty unhappy with current situation whereby courts rule on relatively small sums

Economic analysis: How to achieve the goals of No Child 2020

Proposals to tackle child poverty sound costly, but are tiny in terms of overall spend

Fintan O’Toole: It is time for a children’s budget

No Child 2020: Nothing could be more financially prudent than eliminating child poverty

LifeSkills school programme ‘transforming outcomes’ for children

Pupils learn how to make good decisions, deal with stress and feel good about themselves

Alliance calls for end to child poverty in pre-budget submission

Children’s Rights Alliance proposes daily hot meals, free school books and hobby subsidy

€20m would provide free primary school books to all

No Child 2020: The high cost of school books affects some families worse than others

Boy with autism ‘regressed’ due to refusal of school-bus place

Autism advocacy charity says move ‘breaches spirit of Act’ aimed at protecting boy

‘Some children just have biscuits to keep them going from 9am to 2.40pm’

Principal of Tipperary primary school says some children are coming to school hungry

No place for 470 schools on hot meals for children scheme

Figures show gravity of ‘food poverty’ problem facing families trying to feed youngsters

Not going to school next week: ‘Our children are slipping through the cracks’

No Child 2020: Hundreds of children with special needs are without school places

Child in care was left with nowhere to go due to financial issues, report finds

Child Care Law Reporting Project highlights cases of children forced abroad for care

‘Kids living here don’t have a normal childhood’

No Child 2020: Children in Direct Provision suffer bullying and restricted educational access

Deaths of six children known to Tusla associated with ‘substance misuse’

Review says in some cases social workers ‘overly optimistic’ about parents’ competency

Doherty rejects call for role specifically tackling child poverty

Minister says her conscience and those of colleagues ‘should be enough of a driver’

Child homelessness in midlands more than triples in two years

Number of homeless families in midlands reached 45 towards end of April

Creative Ireland initiative is not perfect but it is making a difference

Children from all backgrounds could benefit from music, drama and art in every school

‘When I was 16 everything was fine, then suddenly it wasn’t’

No Child 2020: ‘No child should feel isolated because of their mental health struggles’

The Irish Times view on Cruinniú na nÓg: the artist in every child

A ‘culture card’ should be issued to all under-18s to allow them greater opportunity to experience cultural life

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