Pearse Doherty

Support for a 5-year plan for early years and school age care; and an increase in Core Funding which takes account of both inflation and any agreed sector pay scales; Increases in the National Childcare Scheme, encompassing universal and targeted subsidies and a national…

Enhanced support for Youth Services, Better support for Camhs, Implementation of the NCCA Review of RSE

Awareness of Youth Work

Provide an update to Pearse Doherty on work of Jigsaw Donegal

Jigsaw Donegal service, presenting issues, how Jigsaw provided services during C19, funding for mental health and early intervention, OGS, work in community and OGC

Making childcare an essential service

That the response to the COVID-19 pandemic considered the need of those parenting alone and included the provision of additional incomes supports, employment and childcare supports, tenancy protections and rental supports, and measures to address energy poverty, food poverty…

Increased funding for the youth sector

Grant from DCYA or Tusla

To provide a Seas Suas written submission to Special Committee on Covid-19 Response on the government's response to the childcare Covid-19 crisis

Implementation of the Youth Mental Health Taskforce recommendations::Increase in Guidance Counsellor allocation::Strengthened efforts to protect children from preventable diseases, including reversing recent falls in measles immunization.::Action to reduce income inequality and…

Inclusion of appropriate childminding policies in party manifestos and programs for government. Childminders to be meaningfully included in decision making for their sector. To influence the outcome of the forthcoming Childminding Action Plan, so that actions support…

That TDs would support a pathway to residency for young undocumented people

Launch of My World Survey 2 Report by Jigsaw and UCD, the largest research report on youth mental health in Ireland.

Secure support for greater investment in early years and the establishment of a single agency for the sector.