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Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (Dublin)
$849,819
Resource type: Grantee
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Society of St Vincent De Paul (Mayo)
$1,980,138
Resource type: Grantee
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'Poor Can't Pay' campaign launched
Original Source Age Action, Barnardos, Focus Ireland, and St. Vincent de Paul are Atlantic grantees. by ELAINE EDWARDS TRADE UNIONS and non- governmental organisations (NGOs) have formed a joint campaign group to oppose proposed cuts in social welfare payments or the minimum wage. The move…
Resource type: News
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Income levy grossly unfair to low earners warns charity
Source: Irish Times
by CARL O'BRIEN PEOPLE ON low incomes will be hit hardest by the introduction of an 1 per cent income levy in the Budget, a number of lobby groups for the disadvantaged warned yesterday. The Society of St Vincent de Paul said the levy was…
Resource type: News
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Evaluation of Programme to Protect Children from Domestic Violence
Source: University of Lincoln
Children who experience domestic abuse can be forgotten victims. Mayo Children's Initiative (MCI Ireland), a programme in rural Ireland, made "spectacular progress" in reaching these children and is a model for other countries to follow, according to the lead researcher of an evaluation carried out…
Resource type: Research Report
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Cuts could wreck poorer children's college chances
Source: Irish Independent
THE cutting of child benefit payments to those over the age of 18 could exclude children from lower-income families from third-level education and may even prevent others from completing secondary school, children's groups said yesterday. In his Budget, Brian Lenihan announced that benefit payments for…
Resource type: News
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New Book Examines Inequality in School Discipline
Source: Palgrave Macmillan
[caption id="attachment_77860" align="alignright" width="300"] Inequality in School Discipline: Research and Practice to Reduce Disparities. Editors: Russell J. Skiba, Kavitha Mediratta and M. Karega Rausch. Learn more >[/caption] Inequality in School Discipline fills a critical void by providing the most current and authoritative information on what…
Resource type: News
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Why are some students subjected to harsher discipline than others? How can we fix this problem?
Source: Kavitha Mediratta and M. Karega Rausch
This post is an excerpt from Kavitha Mediratta's and M. Karega Rausch's introduction to Inequality in School Discipline, a new book that fills a critical void by providing the most current and authoritative information on what is known about disciplinary disparities.
Resource type: News
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Ombudsman for Children Praises Mayo Children’s Initiative
Source: The Mayo News
A researcher has hailed the ‘spectacular progress’ made by a Castlebar-based children’s project and said its work was a model for other countries to follow.“What’s going on here in Mayo is of international significance,” said Professor Howard Stevenson of the University of Lincoln. He was…
Resource type: News
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40,000 new claims for school aid overwhelm officials
Source: The Irish Times
By Carl O'Brien There has been a huge increase in requests from families for assistance with the cost of sending their children back to school. Almost 200,000 parents have applied for the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance, 30,000 more than the Government had budgeted for. The…
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