This morning (June 17) Pavee Point was pleased to attend the 20th anniversary celebration of Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) at the Department of Children, Disability and Equality. Since 2006, as Ireland’s national longitudinal study of children and young people, GUI has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the experiences, wellbeing and development […]
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From Pavee Point’s Education Programme comes an explainer for two new action plans published by the Department of Children, Disability and Equality (DCDE): ‘Shaping the Future: Early Years Action Plan (Phase 1)’; and ‘Simplify and Support: Action Plan for Simplification’. The action plans focus on improving affordability, quality and sustainability in childcare. ‘Shaping the Future: […]
read more →What’s it like being young Roma and LGBT? “Although we are two barely educated Roma women living in quite bad conditions, we dared to ask to be recognised as a same-sex family and, when resettled, to be granted one social housing unit where we will be living together.”(Maria, 28, Serbia) You can read the life […]
read more →On July 21st and 22nd, the Pavee Point Youth Programme visited Croagh Patrick with a group of young men, aged 12 to 14. This valuable and rewarding experience allowed for the group to work collectively to achieve a common goal. The structure of the residential allowed for the developing of interpersonal skills, leadership skills as […]
read more →On 13th January the Youth Work programme delivered Relationship and Sexuality Education Toolkit training to organisations working with young Travellers. The participants attending were made up of Travellers and settled people working directly with young Travellers. The participants were representing four Traveller organisation across the country which were; Wicklow Traveller Programme Sligo Traveller Group Kilkenny […]
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