# department of children
Advertisement
Last month
March 2024
THE MORNING LEAD
'A slap in the face': Mother and baby home survivors told they need photo ID to apply for redress
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said applicants who don’t have photo ID will be “treated empathetically and on a case-by-case basis”.
The Government's long-awaited redress scheme finally opens for applications today
Many elderly survivors do not have a passport, driving licence or Public Service Card
One man was told his mother cannot apply without photo ID, but he could apply on her behalf if she died
Órla Ryan
Updated
20 Mar
21.1k
17
RELATED
This year
2024
department of children
Controversial Mother and Baby Home redress scheme will open for applications next month
27 Feb
7.9k
Last year
2023
mother-and-baby homes
Compel religious orders to pay redress, Sinn Féin TD says, as survivors mull legal action
28 Nov 2023
16.0k
accommodation crisis
Documents reveal 'desperate' pleas among government departments to house asylum seekers
20 Oct 2023
29.7k
department of children
No movement on lack of Child Benefit entitlement for families in Direct Provision
10 Oct 2023
14.0k
State Care
Reports about welfare of children in State care deleted amid GDPR concerns
16 Sep 2023
19.8k
56
Foster Care crisis
Most carers wouldn't recommend fostering children due to financial strain, survey finds
2 Sep 2023
20.3k
29
Growing Up
Pandemic had no impact on the 'vast majority' of 13-year-olds' transition to secondary school
10 Jul 2023
12.6k
49
Teacher Influencers
Calls for Govt to tell 'influencer teachers' to stop paid posts for Horse Racing Ireland in schools
Updated
5 Jul 2023
41.9k
41
THE MORNING LEAD
'The system is broken': Carlow toddler with scoliosis without therapy due to staffing crisis
5 Jul 2023
16.9k
28
bloom 2023
Woodland garden focusing on outdoor play for children wins gold medal at Bloom
1 Jun 2023
13.4k
8
Refugees
'I cried with my daughter': Ukrainians given four days to leave Dublin hotel and find new school
10 Mar 2023
38.6k
31
Tender
Government seeks experts to ensure Mother and Baby Home redress scheme doesn't break GDPR rules
23 Feb 2023
5.9k
Excavation
Tuam mother and baby home site will finally be excavated after Director is appointed next month
7 Jan 2023
14.8k
All time
information and tracing act
'A historic moment': Adopted people can access information about their birth from today
Updated
3 Oct 2022
17.1k
11
Foster parents
Fostering allowance becoming insufficient amid cost-of-living crisis, say carers
6 Aug 2022
20.4k
9
Childcare
Creches say planned fee freeze for childcare costs in September 'unworkable'
21 Jun 2022
14.6k
8
Conversion Therapy
Research to inform conversion therapy ban expected by end of summer
17 May 2022
9.4k
5
mother and baby homes
Survivors consider legal action to get health records amid 'bizarre' row with department
16 Sep 2021
21.6k
baby boxes
Rollout of baby boxes to new parents delayed as Department undertakes consultation
5 Aug 2021
38.2k
38
Voices
Opinion: Without a public childcare model there can be no equality for women
Orla O'Connor
29 May 2021
16.0k
19
Data Protection
People identified in Mother and Baby Home records asked to contact Department of Children
28 May 2021
9.9k
4
dept of children
Illegal adoption investigator says she was treated 'disrespectfully and in an unprofessional manner' by Dept
25 Apr 2021
48.5k
28
Conversion Therapy
'A person's sexual orientation is not up for debate': O'Gorman moves to outlaw conversion therapy in Ireland
15 Apr 2021
31.3k
67
Redress
'Pay us and acknowledge what happened': Mother and baby home survivors want compensation and a remembrance day
4 Apr 2021
28.6k
41
Email Addresses
Department apologises after 'careless' data breach of people attending mother and baby home redress meetings
25 Mar 2021
21.6k
12
Bethany Home
Campaigner Derek Leinster says Protestant survivors and those living abroad 'not a priority' for redress
25 Mar 2021
22.2k
3
department of children
Data Protection Commissioner: Transfer of Mother and Baby Homes records to Dept could be 'high risk'
Updated
25 Feb 2021
19.5k
16
department of children
Report on pay levels in childcare sector to be finalised in coming days
4 Feb 2021
16.1k
7
Legal questions
'Two tests' to be applied for Mother and Baby Home survivors to seek access to records
Updated
29 Oct 2020
47.4k
20
Voices
‘Children's needs should be the priority for after-school services’
Marian Quinn
23 Jul 2020
12.7k
0
Voices
‘Without state interventions many childcare providers will go out of business’
Sarah O’Leary & Michele Akerlind
22 Jul 2020
10.2k
19
Voices
‘Time to radically reform childcare and break the tension between fees and quality’
Darragh O’Connor
21 Jul 2020
13.5k
11
Voices
‘We are essentially paying out a second mortgage in childcare every month’
Lynda Butler
20 Jul 2020
28.5k
49