The range of measures within Budget 2024 will help to alleviate the immediate financial concerns of families we work with across Ireland. They will go some way in the short term to reduce their worries about being able to provide their children with basic essentials. We particularly welcome the expansion of free schoolbooks to secondary
11th July 2023 Barnardos is calling for the introduction of a targeted approach for vulnerable children and families in Budget 2024. In their Pre-Budget Submission the children’s charity is calling on the Government to focus measures towards providing the most vulnerable families and children with a decent standard of living. A recent survey in May
Impact on Children Report 2023 Embargoed to May 24th Barnardos children’s charity today launcheda new report outlining the growing impact that the cost of living crisis is having on children across the country. Over 73% of parents surveyed said that cost of living increases have negatively affected the children in their care over the past 6
Minister Humphrey’s recognition that free hot school meals should be provided to all primary schoolchildren by 2030 is extremely welcome and will make a real difference to the lives of many children across the country. Barnardos knows from families we support that free school meals can have a real benefit on children in receipt of
Barnardos has long called for the introduction of free schoolbooks for all children as a first step in making education truly free within Ireland. Barnardos CEO Suzanne Connolly said: “The announcement in last year’s budget to provide free schoolbooks to all primary school children in Ireland from this September and forever going forward was extremely welcome.
Barnardos children’s charity says the CSO Statistics Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) findings on deprivation are unacceptable. The findings state that one in five children (19.9%) experienced deprivation last year in Ireland and that just under one in six (15.2%) found themselves at risk of poverty. This means that almost one quarter of