Carers Allowance and Carer’s Benefit, What’s Really Changing -Why it’s Not Good Enough
Carer’s Allowance & Carer’s Benefit: What’s Really Changing — and Why It’s Not Good Enough Over recent weeks, many family carers have received letters and seen media coverage about changes to how Carer’s Allowance and Carer’s Benefit are reported to Revenue from 1...
An Outrage Against Carers -Ireland Taxing Compassion
A cruel measure carers save the State 20billion euros The Irish Government must remove taxation from carers and abolish the means test with a living wage for all carers and people with disabilities.
Missing Children a National Shame That Demands Change Now
We demand the creation of a National Safeguarding System with real time tracking of children in care .
Broken Promises , Broken Services It’s Time for Parent Led Reform
Parents must lead the proposed change in the AON system the HSE have failed to deliver and this role must be taken away from them
AON Announcement Without Action fails to provide any certainty
While Ministers Norma Foley and Emer Higgins repeatedly used phrases like “faster”, “more efficient”, and “timelier”, they did not provide the only thing that matters to families who have already waited years—certainty. Certainty about when their child will actually be assessed. Certainty about who will carry out those assessments. Certainty that the assessment will lead to real, tangible supports. And certainty that Ireland has finally decided to stop sacrificing children to bureaucracy, understaffing and political hesitation.
A System in Freefall 18,000 Children Waiting for Assessments
A systemic denial of Children’s rights without reform investment and staffing another generation of children will be left behind
Budget Day A Tax Break for fast Food no Living Wage for Carers ?
The Government are deciding if they will reduce VAT on Hospitality or remove means testing for Carers our view is that they must do both – a huge surplus gives them a unique opportunity to deliver 2 election promises they made in 2024
Crisis in Children’s Therapy Services with 1000s waiting years
Children are falling so far behind they will never catch-up
Trump’s Dangerous Claims About Autism and Paracetamol Leave Parents Distressed
Trumps deflects from his failures at home and internationally by using discredited Autism theories