All secondary schools to receive new resources aimed at empowering young people

Practice entails money or sexual favours being extorted from someone by threatening to reveal sexual information or images

Pilot project will provide free books for 15,500 pupils in disadvantaged schools

Anti-child-poverty initiatives were ‘really significant’, says Children’s Rights Alliance

Children’s charity says waiting lists are the result of 16% increase in demand for supports

Children’s Rights Alliance proposes daily hot meals, free school books and hobby subsidy

Barnardos says Government could make books free at primary level at ‘minuscule’ cost to education budget

Peter McVerry Trust finds temporary house in Co Offaly for couple with seven children

Appropriate reparations required for ‘terrible aspects of our past,’ Minister says

Children accounted for all but four of the 41 additional people who became homeless since February

‘My hope is to shift the public and then the political discourse,’ says charity’s chief

Changes, redundancies necessary due to gaps in State funding – chief executive

Barnardos chief Suzanne Connolly on the the impact of what happens behind closed doors

Outgoing Barnardos chief executive says Ireland is no 'Republic of opportunity' for the poor