Too many people are kept in their cells between 19 and 24 hours a day, says chief prison inspector
"It really is an absolutely critical issue," says Mark Kelly.
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Based in the north inner-city, Mums Hub supports parents to get back to paid, and more flexible, work
“For many mothers, the issue is not a lack of ambition, it is wanting to work without being absent from their children’s everyday lives,” says its founder Karla Dragić.
Youth workers look for new ways to fight grooming of children as young as six by drug gangs
With younger and younger children being targeted, organisations on the ground have to respond, they say.
Council approves plans for Mountjoy Square Park, but there's still confusion on future of playgrounds and sports there
“The play trail won’t work for us,” says Geraldine O’Driscoll, who runs an early years service on Mountjoy Square.
Eight-year-old Cabra resident calls on council to provide a pump track in his local park
“Pump tracks are very fun,” says Oran Wood, who discovered the hilly tracks while visiting his cousins. Pump tracks can be traversed on bikes, skateboards, skates and scooters.
Tusla says it's an offence to run an unregistered children’s home, but it places children in them anyways
So how does it square the circle?
Department of Children not yet committed to key measure to support children in care who are a risk to themselves
Advocates call for the full implementation of an expert report on special care, and welcomed plans for legal reform to get state agencies working together.
Live in Fingal and wish you could push your kids out to play on the street?
The council says it wants to hear from you.
In Chapelizod, parents don high-vis and wait, hopefully, for council to approve a school warden
Requests for a school warden were previously turned down because it was considered too dangerous, said a councillor. In recent times, two other schools have been told the same.
A short animated film tells the story of a Dublin child trafficked for criminal exploitation
Forced criminality has been happening in the north inner-city for years but, lately, it is happening more openly, says Belinda Nugent, of ICON.
In Lusk, parents struggle to find creche places for their children
One creche, Woodlands, has had to close its waiting list, because there were 280 names on it, says the facility manager, Karen McKernan.
Near Blanchardstown, a housing estate has made a neighbourhood green into a playspace for kids – but want council help to make it safe
They want to fence off part of it, they say, to keep football-playing kids and their ball on the green, safely separated from the speeding cars and scramblers.
In the Donore Avenue area, kids are left to their own devices among derelict council-owned buildings and vacant lots
The sports pitches are long gone. The playground too. The community centre burned in 2021 and the council has left it a charred husk. “It’s so disheartening.”