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Barnardos launches Annual Report 2025: The children’s charity reports a waiting list of more than 3,000
Barnardos children’s charity today launched its Annual Report 2025, highlighting the growing needs of families across Ireland. Barnardos worked with more than 34,000 children, parents and adults and reports a record waiting list of 3,023, a 31% increase on the previous year.
A Day of Giving with Barnardos – A Lifetime of Difference for Children – Barnardos Giving Day 18th September 2026
Barnardos is calling on the public to help change the lives of children across the country by supporting its annual Giving Day this Friday the 18th of September.
Barnardos concerned by ESRI report on school absences
Today’s ESRI findings that school absence rates are higher in disadvantaged areas and among children living in poverty, lone parent households and where there are adverse experiences, including poor parental mental health and addiction, are deeply concerning, although unfortunately not unexpected says Barnardos children’s charity.