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  With support from The Ireland Funds, our Parent Child Home Program (PCHP), an innovative, home based literacy and parenting program, has helped hundreds of parents to develop the confidence and skills to support their children’s language, literacy and numeracy development. Our PCHP families often live in areas…

    Almost half of all children from disadvantaged backgrounds do not reach their expected level of development when they start school,* by which time the gap between disadvantaged children and their peers can be as large as 15 months.** This school readiness ‘gap’ can have lasting consequences,…

  After she signed up to the Parent Child Home Programme, María Hernández Cannon had a wowza moment. She realised she needed to change how she read to her son. “I was like, ‘Hang on a minute, I’ve been doing everything wrong,”‘ she said. She started to talk…

Half of the world’s top 50 banks and top 20 insurance companies have premises in Dublin’s International Financial Services Centre, while IT businesses mushroom on the other side of the River Liffey in the area known as ‘Silicon Docks’. For Docklands residents deprived of opportunity across generations, the…

  With 90pc of brain growth happening before the age of five, without early intervention, generations of children’s life chances are determined before their first day of school. At three years of age, there are already big differences in language and mathematical development between children from rich and…

  It’s lunchtime in Dublin’s International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) and “the suits”, as the locals call them, are emerging from office blocks to enjoy the fading warmth of the autumn sun. Half of the world’s top 50 banks and half of the top 20 insurance companies have…

My Education Week: Sandra Monks Home visitor, National College of Ireland Parent Child Home Programme 12/31/12 MONDAY Children are amazing. Each one is so different and they all surprise you. Sometimes it takes a bit of trial and error to get them going. This lad I visited this…

by Ruth O’Connor 01/26/10 Pre-school children and their parents in some of Dublin’s disadvantaged areas are enjoying the benefit of a novel home learning programme ‘HI JACKIE! Books in your bag, Jackie?” It’s visiting day and my two-year-old son is positively hopping with excitement. Jackie’s weekly visits have…