Early Childhood Care Research
- Adopted People's Association - organisation for Irish people formally or informally adopted as children
- Ark - in Dublin, Europe's first custom-designed arts centre for children
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare - site features materials on adoption, child protection, children's services, child and youth wellbeing and juvenile justice
- Barnados - children's services organisation
- Barretstown Gang Camp - Paul Newman's camp for seriously ill children, located in Co. Wicklow
- Border Counties Childcare Network - organisation that represents interests of childcare providers in border counties of Monaghan, Meath, Louth, Cavan, Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim
- Child Care Northern Ireland - aims 'to provide policy, advice, information and training to the voluntary child care sector and the wider general public'
- Childminding Ireland - for those involved in pre-school care
- Children 5-16: Growing into the Twenty-First Century. A project carried out at the University of Hull (UK) that examines contemporary issues from the perspective of children as 'social actors'. Features details (and some findings) of 22 separate projects
- Children and the conflict in Northern Ireland: The experiences and perspectives of 3-11 year olds - by Paul Connolly & Julie Healy for NI Assembly [2004] PDF
- Children at Risk in Ireland (CARI) - organisation for victims of child sexual abuse. Site has good basic information on the issues
- Children in need - Irish Times article about the Kim O'Donovan case and the need for high support units [another article] [password required]
- Children's Express - UK web-based newspaper produced for and by young people. Features numerous stories from Northern Ireland
- Children's Rights Alliance - non-governmental organisation that aims to monitor Ireland's compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Children's Society - campaigning UK children's charity. Useful documents on-site.
- Childwatch International - Norway-based research network that aims to 'promote, initiate and disseminate international, inter-disciplinary research that leads to a real improvement in the well-being of children'. Site provides excellent up-to-date research information and has excellent links
- Climbié case - collection of articles from the UK Guardian newspaper about this high-profile child protection case
- Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse - (the Laffoy/Ryan Commission) established by Irish government in May 1999. Site features downloadable reports
- Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development - main focus of this site is on issues pertinent to the early years in the 'majority world' - the world outside of the 'developed world'. Good links
- Early Years Experience - wonderful site with resources, activities, recipes, multi-cultural festivals rhymes, songs for early years settings
- European Forum for Child Welfare - European network of NGOs concerned with child welfare [site not updated since Nov 2002]
- First Key (Northern Ireland) - organisation that provides after-care services to young people
- Forum for Children and Family - Council of Europe. Site has a range of materials related to children's issues
- Healthy Childhood Research Group - Australian body that examines the early childhood centre as a setting for health promotion activity with children, parents and their communities
- High/Scope - US-based research foundation that has developed a proprietary model of early childhood education
- IAYPIC - Irish Association of Young People in Care
- Involving children and young people in developing social care - practice report from the UK Social Care Institute of Excellence [2006] PDF
- Income and child wellbeing - by Greg Duncan. ESRI Geary Lecture [2005] PDF
- IPPA - the Early Childhood Organisation. Comprehensive and colourful site on early childhood issues in Ireland
- Irish Foster Care Association - co-ordinates the work of those interested in foster care and provides a forum to promote effectively the welfare of children already in foster care, and those who should be given the opportunity
- Irish Survivors Group - British-based site established by solicitors firm. Aims to provide information to UK residents that have suffered child sexual assault in Ireland
- ISPCC - Irish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children: children's rights organisation
- Lost innocents - report on child migration to Australia. Details abuse by Christian Brothers and other organisations, and how these issues may be addressed
- NIPPA - peak body for early years education in Northern Ireland
- OECD Thematic report on early childhood education and care - background report [2004]. Good overview of ECCE issues in Ireland PDF
- Ombudsman for Children - an independent body with powers to investigate complaints against public bodies in relation to or on behalf of childrens' rights
- Rollercoaster - commercially supported Irish parenting site
- Save the Children - Rädda Barnen (Sweden) - useful material on children's rights, pornography and the internet, racism &c [in English]
- Save the Children (UK)- information on children in Northern Ireland
- Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care - very useful and extensive site
- Sugradh - organisation that promotes the development of children's playgrounds
- Time to listen - Confronting child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy in Ireland. Executive summary of book [2003]
- Treoir - national co-ordinating body of both statutory and voluntary agencies that provide services for unmarried parents and their children. Fairly basic page of organisational and contact details
- TSFEPS project - cross-national EU-funded project that examined the role of childcare policies as generators of social cohesion. Countries ranged from Bulgaria to UK, but did not include Ireland [2002]