Barnardos children’s charity today launched its Annual Report 2025, highlighting the growing needs of families across Ireland. Barnardos worked with more than 34,000 children, parents and adults and reports a record waiting list of 3,023, a 31% increase on the previous year.
Barnardos is calling on the public to help change the lives of children across the country by supporting its annual Giving Day this Friday the 18th of September.
Today’s ESRI findings that school absence rates are higher in disadvantaged areas and among children living in poverty, lone parent households and where there are adverse experiences, including poor parental mental health and addiction, are deeply concerning, although unfortunately not unexpected says Barnardos children’s charity.
The European Commission has introduced a new EU Kids Act, creating a common EU approach to children’s online safety. The proposal covers social media, video sharing platforms, online gaming and AI powered services used by children and young people.
ALDI Ireland has today announced the return of its annual Trolley Token charity campaign in partnership with Barnardos Ireland – it’s as easy as ABC.
Barnardos children’s charity welcomes the comments made by the Taoiseach last week that child poverty will be a key priority for Budget 2027. The statistics published today by the ESRI demonstrate that too many children are living in poverty and that measures, focused on the lowest income families, need to be introduced in Budget 27 in order to make progress towards the Government’s targets.
Download the report Key findings:School Avoidance: More than one fifth (21%) of primary and one third (33%) of secondary school parents said their children were refusing or avoiding going to school at least once a month.Absenteeism: Almost half (46%) of parents said their children missed school for non-health/medical reasons last year once or twice, with
Heinz and Barnardos research highlights how mealtimes and relationships across generations help children feel connected and supported.
Heinz and Barnardos research highlights how mealtimes and relationships across generations help children feel connected and supported.
Barnardos has today launched its Back to School Survey 2026. Results continue to show that parents are concerned about meeting costs this year with primary school parents particularly worried about the cost of uniforms and many secondary school parents concerned about how to meet the cost of digital devices.