One Family – 10 cost neutral suggestions for helping lone parents back to work Media release, 19 April 2012, One Family, Ireland’s leading organisation for one-parent families, announces its ‘One Family-Ten Solutions’ campaign which provides ten cost neutral strategies to assist lone parents back into work or education. This follows Minister for Social Protection, Joan [...]

Stuart Duffin, One Family, Welfare to Work Manager, was at the 66th Labour Party Conference in Galway over the weekend promoting One Family’s course of   action in response to Budget 2012.  All 750 copies of the paper, One Family – Ten Solutions – Smarter Futures were taken and read. One Family is advocating cost neutral administrative [...]

Press Release ONE FAMILY & EBS LAUNCH FAMILY DAY AND ANNOUNCE DETAILS OF THEIR FAMILY DAY ART COMPETITION AND A PICNIC TO BE HOSTED IN DUBLIN’S IVEAGH GARDENS ON SUNDAY 13 MAY IRISH BROADCASTER, IAN DEMPSEY CALLS ON FAMILIES ACROSS IRELAND TO CELEBRATE FAMILY DAY 5 April 2012 – To mark International Day of the [...]

Family Communications – Training for Trainers Cork May 14-16 This training course is based on our Family Communications manual. The course prepares workers to design and deliver these programmes to groups or to work one-to-one with families with an emphasis towards those parenting alone, sharing parenting and parenting through family change. The comprehensive manual includes [...]

We got loads of press coverage for the launch of our new Child Contact Centre service which is great. Here is One Family Director Karen Kiernan on The Last Word with Matt Cooper explaining all about it at 15 minutes into the clip. http://media.todayfm.com/listenback/98/monday/1/popup

Here are some figures of interest from Census 2011 1 in 8 people in Ireland live in a one-parent family (Census 2011) 567,311 persons out of a general population of 4,588,252. 1 in 4 (25.8%) families with children in Ireland is a one-parent family (Census 2011) 215,315 lone parent families out of 834,266 families with children. We previously reported [...]

Press Release Barnardos and One Family launch much needed Service for Children and Separated Parents in Ireland Dublin, 2 April 2012 – A new service for children whose parents are separated and who are unable to agree safe and appropriate arrangements for contact was launched today by Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald, TD. The first-of-its [...]