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Community Employment Schemes under threat

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Published on 05-02-2012 11:02 AM Number of Views: 69

Sinn Féin deputy leader, Mary Lou McDonald, has said that Community Employment Schemes provide essential services and should be protected against budget cuts. She was speaking in Dublin today, as she issued the text of the party’s motion on the issue, which will be proposed in the Dáil during Private Members’ time on Tuesday and Wednesday ...

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EU unit to tackle youth unemployment in Ireland

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Published on 05-02-2012 10:54 AM Number of Views: 41

A European taskforce is being dispatched to Ireland this month to tackle the youth unemployment crisis.

Ireland is one of eight eurozone states which European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has targeted for reinvigoration.

“We need to make ...

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Kinsale Youth Service leads the way with new initiative

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Published on 15-10-2011 11:32 AM Number of Views: 499

THE idea behind a Cork community initiative tackling drug and alcohol abuse and promoting good mental health may be rolled out across the country.

The Kinsale Youth Support Service (KYYS), which has just run two days ...

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Sign Barnados petition Help protect children in the next Budget

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Published on 14-10-2011 08:18 PM Number of Views: 361

There are over 90,000 children in Ireland living in consistent poverty. Consistent poverty is when a household does not have enough money to buy ...

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New Resource to Support Children Impacted by a Parent’s Problem Drug or Alcohol Use

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Published on 11-10-2011 09:37 AM Number of Views: 566

Minister Launches New Resource to Support Children Impacted by a Parent’s Problem Drug or Alcohol Use
Dublin, 10^th October 2011 – Minister for Children & Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald, today joined Barnardos and the Family Support Agency to launch ‘Parenting Positively – Coping with a Parent’s Problem Drug or Alcohol Use’, a new ...

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Sinn Féin puts motion forward opposing community sector cutbacks

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Published on 07-10-2011 10:40 PM Number of Views: 595

Sinn Féin will use Private Members Business in the Dáil next week to introduce a motion calling on the Government to end the cutbacks to the community and voluntary sector.

The motion says it is unacceptable for the State to abdicate its own responsibility for the delivery of vital services to the community and voluntary sector without providing adequate support and long-term security of funding.

Speaking today as the ...

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New Child Protection procedures for schools

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Published on 02-10-2011 08:23 PM Number of Views: 552

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has published updated child protection procedures for the country's schools.

The “Child Protection Procedures for Primary and Post Primary Schools” have been developed following extensive ...

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ISPCC Video Banned by ASAI

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Published on 30-09-2011 09:29 AM Number of Views: 449

The ISPCC latest video on domestic abuse against children has been banned by the ASAI, ironaclly following complaints of gender inequality.

The graphic, 40-second 'I Can't Wait Until I Grow Up' video was launched last May by the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ...

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Sixty Additional posts for social workers

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Published on 28-09-2011 06:52 PM Number of Views: 502

SIXTY ADDITIONAL posts for social workers were at various stages in the recruitment process as part of the Ryan report implementation plan, Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald told the Dáil.

Ms Fitzgerald said the plan had committed to recruiting ...

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Fears raised over potent cannabis

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Published on 25-09-2011 12:42 PM Number of Views: 572

THE GOVERNMENT’S leading adviser on illegal drugs has expressed concern about the high potency of cannabis being cultivated in cannabis grow-houses here, saying it is much more likely to cause psychosis than other forms of the drug.

The chairman of the National Advisory Committee ...

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Community workers call on Minister to protect Gaeltacht jobs

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Published on 24-09-2011 09:54 AM Number of Views: 405

The Defending Irelands Communities campaign has called upon the Minister for the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan, to immediately intervene to safeguard community services and over 150 jobs ...

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Barnardos Publish New Handbook to Support Reform of Child Protection

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Published on 23-09-2011 07:41 AM Number of Views: 462

Barnardos today welcomed the publication of the Child Protection and Welfare Practice Handbook. The Handbook was published by the HSE as an accompanying guide to the Children First Guidance for social ...

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