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Disability Allowance is payable to disabled people over 16 and under 66 years of age. The disability must have continued, or be expected to continue, for at least 12 months. It must cause substantial restrictions in undertaking work that would otherwise be suitable for a person of your age, experience and qualifications.
In addition to the family allowance, a lump-sum back-to-school allowance is paid once a year in August for every child aged 6 or over enrolled at a primary or secondary school or college. [14] The allowance is €115 every August per child over 6 years old and under 12 years old.
The Mother and Child Scheme was a healthcare programme in Ireland that would later become remembered as a major political crisis involving primarily the Irish Government and Roman Catholic Church in the early 1950s. The scheme was referred to as the Mother and Child Service in legislation. A brochure, "What the new service means to every family ...
Mass grave at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, Tuam, Galway View of the mass grave at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, Tuam, County Galway. The Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home (also known as St Mary's Mother and Baby Home, or locally simply as The Home), [1] which operated between 1925 and 1961 in the town of Tuam, County Galway, Ireland, was a maternity home for unmarried mothers ...
The Castlepollard Mother & Baby Home (also known as the Sacred Hearts Home) [1] that operated between 1935 and 1971 in the town of Castlepollard, County Westmeath, Ireland, was a maternity home for unmarried mothers and their children in the former Kinturk Demesne or Manor previously owned by the 'Old English' Pollard family.
Bethany Home (sometimes called Bethany House or Bethany Mother and Baby Home) was a residential home in Dublin, Ireland mainly for Protestant unmarried mothers and their children, and also for Protestant women convicted of petty theft, prostitution, and infanticide. Most had a Church of Ireland background.
In the Irish Free State and Republic of Ireland, the county home (Irish: teaghlach contae) [1] [2] was an institution which replaced workhouses from 1922 onwards. [ 3 ] County homes were total institutions housing a wide variety of people, mostly poor: the elderly, the chronically ill, the mentally ill , children, the intellectually disabled ...
Gingerbread says it is the leading British charity working with single parent families. [1] The National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child, founded in 1918, changed its name to the National Council for One Parent Families in the early 1970s and in 2007 merged with Gingerbread, a self-help organisation founded in 1970.