Free Workshops available for professionals working with unmarried parents
in Cavan, Louth, Meath and Dublin
Treoir, the National Specialist Information Service for Unmarried Parents and their Children, will be providing a number of workshops in 2012 specifically aimed at workers working with unmarried parents. The workshops will be of interest to those working in the HSE and in other organisations.
The workshops will consist of information sessions in relation to:
- Changes affecting unmarried cohabiting parents arising from The Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010, which was enacted in Jan 2011. Issues covered include:
- How are cohabitants defined in the Act
- What is the Redress Scheme that is available to qualified cohabitants if their relationship ends. This scheme deals with property, maintenance, pension etc.
The sessions will also include information on the legal rights of unmarried parents, eg:
- Maintenance
- Guardianship
- Access/custody
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Nationwide TREOIR Workshops
TREOIR offers a variety of workshops and training around the country to groups of unmarried parents and to groups of professionals who provide services to unmarried parents. Workshops can be tailored to the individual needs of your particular group to include some of the following:
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Legal rights of unmarried parents, including cohabiting parents
The legal situation of unmarried parents is different to that of married parents. Parents can be confused about guardianship rights of fathers, what it means to put the father’s name on the birth certificate, the importance of making a will and many other topics.
The aim of the workshop is to provide accurate up to date information on the legal rights and responsibilities of parents who are not married to each other.
The workshop clarifies the legal situation of unmarried parents with regard to guardianship, access, custody, maintenance, birth registration, establishing paternity and passports.
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Shared parenting and explaining relationships
The aim of this workshop is to raise the awareness of workers of the importance of both parents in the lives of their children.
This workshop also looks at the legal and emotional complexities involved in co-parenting.
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Work it out – Social Welfare Payments and Going back to Work/ Education/Training
The Social Welfare System is very complex. The aim of this workshop is to provide information on social welfare payments and to look at the options / schemes which are available to lone parents when considering employment and/or education / training programmes. The workshop examines how these schemes interact with social welfare entitlements / earnings.
