Changes have been made to the After–school Child Care (ASCC) programme in the Department of Social Protection (DSP). Parents will now pay €3 per day, maximum €15 per week, towards the cost of child care and there will be a free after-school pick-up service available. The ASCC has been expanded to include those on a … Read more
Some One Parent Family recipients will automatically be paid the BTSCFA. If you are one of those who got a letter telling you when and how your allowance is paid then you do not have to do anything. If you are not one of those who got a letter already then you need to apply for … Read more
Assistant CEO and founder member Margot Doherty has retired after 32 years of exemplary service to Treoir. We wish her a joyous retirement filled with fun and happiness. Pictured at her retirement party with Treoir Chairwoman Dr. Ruth Barrington.
The purpose of this new publication is to provide Home School Liaison Teachers & Schools with a best practice approach on policies regarding children living with parents married and unmarried, children of separated parents, same-sex parents, non-biological parents and children in care. Home School Community Liaison Teacher Ann-Maire Waddock, produced this publication with support form … Read more
Treoir welcomes the publication of the Children First Bill 2014. There has been a lack of clarity about obligations to report cases of consensual sexual activity between young people under the age of consent. We welcome the fact that this Bill clarifies the position as follows: A mandated person shall not be required to make … Read more
The treatment of unmarried mothers and their children in Mother and Baby homes, while hugely disturbing, cannot be blamed solely on those running the homes. Institutions provided refuge, albeit in a harsh environment, while families, politicians, the church and society as a whole failed these mothers and their children. In l976 when Treoir, formerly the Federation of … Read more
The recent tragic case of the very ill baby boy born in a Dublin maternity hospital highlights the lack of rights afforded to unmarried fathers. As the couple in this case were not married, the father was not a guardian on the birth of the child. Where the parents are not married to each other … Read more
OUT OF THE blue, on Budget Day in October 2013, the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, TD., announced that he was removing the One Parent Family Credit (OPFC) and replacing it with the Single Person Child Carer Credit (SPCCC) on foot of a recommendation contained in the Commission on Taxation Report in 2009. The OPFC was … Read more
This study, commissioned by Treoir and funded by the HSE Crisis Pregnancy Programme, used the data collected by the Growing Up in Ireland study of 11,134 children, then aged nine months. The study reveals that married parents and their children have the best outcomes on almost all indicators, followed by unmarried-cohabitants with solo parents seriously … Read more
Treoir CEO Margaret Dromey with President Michael D. Higgins and Sabina Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin on International Women’s Day, March 15th 2013.