- Read more: Ireland’s Second European Child Guarantee Interim Report 2024-2025
The European Child Guarantee is an EU initiative that seeks to ensure children at risk of poverty or social exclusion have access to key services such as early childhood learning and care, healthcare, housing, school-based education and healthy school meals. These areas are key to children’s well-being and development and play an important role in…
- Read more: First 5 Annual Implementation Report 2025
The report tracks progress under First 5, the ten-year whole-of-government strategy (2019–2028) for babies, young children and their families. It highlights the launch of the ‘Shaping the Future’ action plan for the early learning and care sector, the Bia Blasta pre-school nutrition programme now running in over 470 disadvantaged-area settings, and almost 247,000 children benefiting…
- Read more: Report on Child Poverty and Deprivation
The Joint Committee on Children and Equality has published its Report on Child Poverty and Deprivation. The report assesses the causes, drivers and impacts of child poverty following engagement with 19 stakeholders and children themselves.
- Read more: Poverty Focus 2025
Social Justice Ireland has published a report, “Poverty Focus 2025″, that examines the nature and experiences of poverty in Ireland.
- Read more: The effect of child-related benefits on child poverty and deprivation in Ireland
The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) published a report on “The effect of child-related benefits on child poverty and deprivation in Ireland” on June 11, 2025.
- Read more: Child poverty on the island of Ireland
The ESRI has published a new report: Child Poverty on the Island of Ireland. “While child poverty in each jurisdiction has been studied separately, there is an absence of comparative research. A comparative analysis of this sort can help to identify the features of the two systems that are influential in preventing or exacerbating child…
- Read more: The Next Government Could Eliminate Consistent Poverty by 2030
Consistent poverty is a unique Irish statistic that combines risk-of-poverty (having an income less than 60% of the median) with the experience of deprivation (inability to afford two or more of 11 basic items such as a warm coat or home heating). The latest statistics show that 3.6% of the population—including 4.8% of all children—lives…
- Read more: OECD: Monitoring and Evaluation of Child and Youth Policies and Outcomes in Ireland
The OECD has published “Monitoring and Evaluation of Child and Youth Policies and Outcomes in Ireland”. This report is part of a joint project between the OECD, the European Commission and Ireland to strengthen policy and governance arrangements in Ireland. It provides guidance for the development of a Monitoring and Evaluation system for Ireland’s new…
