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Policy Brief: Child Poverty Monitor 2023

At the start of June, the Children’s Rights Alliance released the 2023 Child Poverty Monitor. This is an annual publication that analyses and reports on child poverty in Ireland. The report tracks Government progress in reducing the number of children in poverty. It also points out possible solutions and areas of concern in issues such

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AsIAm receives €135,000 in National Pyjama Day funding

Early Childhood Ireland is pleased to announce that €135,000 has been donated to autism charity, AsIAm, from funds raised during National Pyjama Day 2022. The process was facilitated by Community Foundation Ireland. Members of Early Childhood Ireland voted for AsIAm to benefit from the proceeds of National Pyjama Day, the largest one-day fundraising event organised

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Policy Brief: Falling Behind – Children’s Rights in Ireland

On Tuesday, May 16 2023, the Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) released its annual report for 2022. The ‘Falling Behind – Children’s Rights in Ireland’ report revealed a total of 1,812 complaints made to the Ombudsman’s office last year and highlighted numerous areas of concern, with the mental health system, increased poverty, and barriers to

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Policy Brief: Parental Leave and Early Years

Do improvements in parental leave or subsidised Early Years provision lead to better development outcomes for children? This is the question that is put forward by Nabanita Datta Gupta and Jonas Jessen in a new report from SNS, Centre for Business and Policy Studies in Sweden. It reviews evidence from a number of casual studies

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Policy Brief: South Africa finds investment in Early Years is key

Investment in Early Years is one of the most important tools available to ensure that children all over the world benefit from formal schooling and, later in life, from improved health, social, and economic outcomes, to reduce the intergenerational transmission of poverty. To mark Africa Day on 25 May 2023, we looked at South Africa’s

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