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Barnardos Children's Manifesto: General Election 2020
Get PDFFlyerBarnardos helps children and families across Ireland. Each week children and families come to visit our services in their community. To make a difference to their lives, we are asking the next government to grant three wishes
Renewing Teamwork on the Return to Early Learning and Care
Get PDFBookletGood teamwork has benefits for everyone in early learning and care, including educators, children and families. Starting back to work in the current circumstances after Covid19 lockdown is likely to be stressful, making teamwork more important than ever. Having been physically apart from your colleagues for so long and with the new ‘play-pod’ system in place, you may find it challenging to re establish the culture of teamwork you had previously. There may also have been aspects of your teamwork that needed development before the lockdown period. Even if you are lucky enough to still have your full team, it is common for established, well-functioning teams to fall back to early stages of team development (forming or storming) when faced with major change or challenges. This guide will support you to renew or create the features of good, supportive teamwork that can make your work with young children and their families easier and more effective, especially in these challenging times
Back to School Survey 2020: Covid 19
Get PDFInformation sheetIn total, 1,765 parents completed the Barnardos Back to School Survey in 2020. A total of 255 respondents also completed a separate Children and Young People’s Back to School Survey. The majority of parents who took the survey (1,204) had children in primary school, while the remaining 561 had children attending secondary school. There was a broad geographic spread – 61% of respondents are from Leinster, 25% from Munster, 8% from Connaught and 6% from Ulster – which is largely in line with the national population proportions
Submission for Public Consultation on the Workforce Development Plan for the Early Learning and Care and School-Age Childcare Sector in Ireland
Get PDFPaperBarnardos' vision for the workforce for early learning and care and school-age childcare by 2028
Quality School Age Care: What to Look for in a Service to Care for your Child Outside of School
Get PDFBookletThis booklet offers guidance to parents or carers who are choosing a quality service to care for their child during the time when they are not available and their child is not in school. Commonly referred to as ‘after school’ or ‘school age care’, these services include any early years service, play group, nursery, crèche or other similar service that caters for children under the age of 14 years who are enrolled in a school, and provides a range of recreation, development and education activities outside of school hours. These services must be registered with Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. This means that Tusla can inspect them to ensure they meet certain requirements. Some childminders also cater for children of school age and they may also need to be registered, depending on how many children they are caring for. Other supervised groups for children of school age that provide particular activities such as in the arts (like drama or dancing), youth work, sport, tuition or religious teaching are not required to be registered or inspected by Tusla. While this guide focuses on school age care services, you may also find some of
the information helpful when considering services providing specific activities
Breaking Point: Why Investment is Needed Now to Ensure the Sustainability of Quality Services for Children and Families
Get PDFReportThis year marks ten years since Barnardos agreed to temporary cuts to the funding for services they deliver on behalf of the State under Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Despite a sustained economic recovery, and the fact that Ireland is once again - on all economic measures - one of the richest countries in the EU, funding has never been restored. In fact, the freeze on cost of living increases has meant that funding has continued to decline in real terms year on year. The constrained funding environment is rapidly becoming unsustainable for the organisations that deliver services and for communities that are experiencing rising levels of need. This report summarises the findings of research (see Appendix 1) carried out by Just Economics between March and June 2019 into the impact of funding cuts on Barnardos and the wider sector delivering services for children and families. The research identifies two pathways by which false economies arise from efforts to make short term savings. First, we highlight the significant pressures on services due to the cuts, and the risks that unmet needs will lead to escalating, and more costly downstream problems. Notably these cuts have fallen hardest on intensive family support services provided on behalf of the State which enable it to fulfil its statutory obligation under the Childcare Act. Second, we show how historic and persistent underfunding of public services at the national level have led to poor policy performance by Ireland relative to peer economies. In particular, a failure to prioritise upstream preventative services has led to a high prevalence of avoidable social problems. This is brought into sharp focus by Ireland’s laggard position on an index of European countries for both social problems and spending. The paper makes a case for both incremental and transformative change to improve Ireland’s position and create a better, more equal society for its citizens
ChildLinks Issue 3: Parenting Support Programmes
No full textBarnardos journal ChildLinksFamilies in Ireland today face a wide range of issues that can have a negative impact on children’s development, wellbeing, learning, achievement, family function and peer relationships. Long-term risks ultimately include adult mental health and family welfare issues as well as issues with crime, employment and economic independence. Early interventions, including parenting support that is evidence-based and contextually and culturally meaningful, can be an effective. Often, however, families do not get the help they need or support does not come early enough to have a real impact, the scale of the need outweighs the service capacity available, or access and engagement is affected by complex referral pathways and stigma. A growing body of research emphasises the importance of investing in parenting and family support services, emphasising the transformative potential of prevention and early intervention in improving outcomes for children and families. In this issue of ChildLinks we look at parenting support programmes, which, to be successful, must be flexible to address the different needs of parents in different contexts. In the first article Dr Carmel Devaney and Dr Rosemary Crosse from UNESCO Child and Family Centre in NUI Galway outline the evolution of parenting support in Ireland as a policy imperative and the role of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency in parenting support. Also in this issue Rev Emerald-Jane Turner, an occupational therapist, trauma consultant, psychotherapist and interfaith minister in the UK, considers how humans can become overwhelmed due to trauma and the importance of calm and self-compassion. The other articles in this issue relate to Partnership with ParentsTM (PwP), an intensive, home-based, one-to-one parenting support programme for parents with multiple and complex needs, developed by Barnardos Ireland. Articles give an overview of the design and implementation of the programme and also evidence from a mixed method evaluation, which demonstrates how the unique design and implementation of PwP works well within the complex, real world, everyday lives of parents
Tusla/Barnardos Partnership: Registered Users’ Feedback Survey - Findings Report
Get PDFReportFindings from a user servey of Tusla staff who are members of Barnardos Library
Submission to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills on Textbook Rental Schemes, the use of Technology for Educational Purposes and the Necessity to Resort to Moneylenders to Cover School Costs
Get PDFPaperOur submission is based on what parents tell us each year in our school costs survey. Since 2005, Barnardos has been highlighting the costs incurred by parents in preparing their children to return to school in September. Each year, parents describe the substantial costs imposed on them and the impact that this financial burden has on them and on their household budget. In doing so, they clearly demonstrate that the mantra of free education rings hollow