Community
Childcare low-pay warning as ministers meet operators in Fingal
Warning of a looming “winter of discontent” in the Community Sector, SIPTU has highlighted the plight of the community-based childcare services.
Family Support
Don’t let myths about fostering fool you!
To foster, you don’t need to be living a perfect life. You don’t need to be married, or have a partner, or own your own house, or be an Irish citizen.
Family Support
New communities urged to consider fostering
Tusla, the child and family agency, is calling on families from new communities to strongly consider fostering.
Family Support
Irish-Nigerian foster parent Blessings says – “Just do it!”
Blessings has raised a child from nine months old to 19 years of age.
Community
Putting the ‘human’ back into human rights and social justice organisations
The pandemic has shown us more than ever the importance of self-care, writes Nicola Browne. She asks - why are social justice organisations so slow to practice what they preach when it comes to wellbeing?
Empowerment
Profiteering from luxury apartments is beating the life out of communities
Profiteering is coming at the expense of communities whose social fabric is being torn asunder. The inner-city has become a construction site, as one community activist sees it, with cranes surrounding us as we speak.
Education & Training
National strategy needed for re-engaging learners post-pandemic – Aontas
Aontas wants a national strategy to address the pandemic’s long-term impact on “marginalised learners and the community education and FET sector”. Pictured above: Niamh O’Reilly, Aontas CEO.
