Children's Mental Health Coalition launched this morning [indymedia.ie]
- Published: 15 December 2009
The Irish Government is failing children with mental health difficulties!
The Irish Government is failing children with mental health difficulties. Urgent reform of the mental health system for children and young people under 18 years is desperately needed.
In response, the Children’s Rights Alliance and Amnesty International Ireland have brought together 38 NGOs to form the Children’s Mental Health Coalition. The newly formed Coalition is today launching a manifesto and website www.childrensmentalhealth.ie to demand action from the Government.
Full Story: www.indymedia.ie
End of year report shows need to try harder [IrishTimes]
- Published: 15 December 2009
All levels of the education sector have felt the chill of recession this year as things have gone from bad to worse. Fasten your seatbelt for a bumpy ride back through 2009, writes SEÁN FLYNN , Education Editor
WHO HAD THE BIGGEST IMPACT ON EDUCATION THIS YEAR?
The Budget may have failed to implement many of his proposals, but Colm McCarthy and his report from An Bord Snip Nua continues to set the agenda in education.
Full Story: www.irishtimes.com
Teacher's Pet [IrishTimes]
- Published: 15 December 2009
An insider’s guide to education
- Predictably, the executives of the various unions convened “emergency’’ meetings in the past few days to consider the Budget cuts in their own pay.
But why have the three unions been so quiet on another pressing issue: the grip held by the Catholic Church on the management of schools?
Full Story: www.irishtimes.com
Lise Hand: Big chill moves in as sniping is back on the agenda [Independent.ie]
- Published: 15 December 2009
IT was bitterly cold yesterday in Limavady anyway, but around lunchtime the temperature plummeted to positively icy.
And the big chill caught everyone on the hop, as there had been no obvious signs of dark clouds on the horizon. And it left the Taoiseach trying to diplomatically ignore the sudden deep freeze between the North's first and deputy ministers.
And there was Brian Cowen thinking that there's nothing like a day-trip out of the Big Smoke. Sure it's a chance to get away from the hand-to-hand combat in the Dail, the foot-in-mouth carry-on of Potty-Mouth Paul Gogarty, and the fist-waving fury of trade union heads.
Full Story: www.independent.ie
'Pause' on autism centre funding lifted [IrishTimes]
- Published: 15 December 2009
THE LIFTING of the “pause” on Irish Government capital funding for the Middletown Centre for Autism in Co Armagh was announced at yesterday’s full meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council (NSMC) in Limavady, Co Derry.
The NSMC, which was attended by Taoiseach Brian Cowen and seven of his Ministers, and First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and five Northern Ministers addressed a wide range of issues including the economy and the proposed autism centre.
Full Story: www.irishtimes.com
