| Link | Description | Publisher |
| On the right track: children’s learning | From 2004 to 2016, The Atlantic Philanthropies together with government and other organisations invested in 52 programmes aimed at improving outcomes for children across the island of Ireland. These programmes used prevention and early intervention approaches in various areas of children’s lives, including learning, behaviour, health and development, parenting and inclusion. This investment was known as the Prevention and Early Intervention Initiative. This report includes findings from evaluations of seventeen programmes focused on children’s learning. |
CES 2016 |
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| On the right track: improving child behaviour | From 2004 to 2016, The Atlantic Philanthropies together with government and other organisations invested in 52 programmes and services aimed at improving outcomes for children across the island of Ireland. These programmes used prevention and early intervention approaches in various areas of children’s lives, including learning, behaviour, health and development, parenting and inclusion. This investment was known as the Prevention and Early Intervention Initiative. This report includes findings from evaluations of fourteen different programmes focused on children’s behaviour. |
CES 2016 |
| Childhood Adversity - Outcomes, Risks and Reslience - An Access Evidence Report | This report contains a rapid review of the literature in the area of childhood adversity and how it affects children during their lives. Implications for frontline practitioners working with children and young people are also included.The appendices to the report include frameworks, assessments, online resources and evidence-based and evidence-informed programmes which may be of interest to practitioners working with families, children and young people facing some form of adversity | CES 2016 |
Screenagers |
A review of research findings from Austria, Denmark, Finland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland |
NYCI 2016 |
| The sexualisation and commercialisation of children | This study on the sexualisation and commercialisation of children in Ireland was commissioned under the Irish Research Council’s Research Development Initiative, in conjunction with the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. The study was exploratory. |
DYCA 2016 |
| Review of the School Completion Programme | ESRI | |
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The National Youth Stratgey 2015-2020 sets out Government’s aim and objectives for young people, aged 10 to 24 years, so that they are active and healthy, achieving their full potential in learning and development, safe and protected from harm, have economic security and opportunity, and are connected and contributing to their world. |
DCYA 2015 |
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Children and Young People’s Services Committees (CYPSCs) are a key structure identified
by Government to plan and co-ordinate services for children and young people in every county in Ireland. The overall purpose is to improve outcomes for children and young people through local and national interagency working. |
DCYA 2015 |
| Learning from the Evaluation of DEIS | This study has been commissioned by the Department of Education and Skills to provide an overview of available information on the impact of DEIS supports for disadvantaged schools. The study addresses three key questions: 1. To what extent has the stated aim of the DEIS programme (namely, to prioritise and address the educational needs of children and young people from disadvantaged communities) been achieved? 2. Which elements of the programme have worked well and which have not worked well? 3. What are the key lessons from the DEIS programme and related policy initiatives in relation to future policy and programmes on educational disadvantage, and in relation to education in schools generally? |
ESRI Research Report |
| 'Children's Independent Mobility on the island of Ireland' | Children in Ireland have less freedom than children in countries such as Germany, England, France and Finland when it comes to travelling to school and moving about in their communities.The finding comes in a new study ranking children's independent mobility in Ireland at 12th out of sixteen countries. The study, which was carried out at Mary Immaculate College of Education in Limerick, also states the single biggest sources of worry to children when they are outside are dogs. But for girls their biggest worry is 'kidnapping'. The study reveals a marked decline in mobility on several scales |
Mary Immaculate College of Education in Limerick 2015 |
| Value for Money and Policy Review of Youth Programmes |
"Evaluation of youth programmes, like many human services, is complicated by the fact that there are few reliable measurement tools, possibly none other than the Randomised Control Trial (RCT), that have the capacity to ‘prove’ a direct cause–effect relationship between resource input and programme impact. In addition to the inherent measurability problems in this study area, the review was significantly hampered by poor and unreliable data......Nevertheless, despite the weaknesses in data quality and in the structures and processes that govern the overall delivery of programmes, the review found evidence of service delivery which was reasonably well aligned with the original intentions of the programmes." | DYCYA Dec 2014 |
| Growing Up in Ireland • DYNAMICS OF CHILD ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY AND SOCIO-EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT | Growing Up in Ireland is the national longitudinal study of children. . This research report draws on the longitudinal Growing Up in Ireland study to examine change over time in the economic vulnerability of families and its consequences for the socio-emotional development of children. | DCYA 2014 |
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Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures. The National Policy Framework for Children & Young People 2014-2020. | DCYA 2014 |
| Leaving School in Ireland:A Longitudinal Study of Post-School Transitions |
This report presents the findings of the Leaving School in Ireland study, a mixed methods study drawing on a survey of young people three to four years after completing the Leaving Certificate and in-depth interviews with a subset of this group. The study collected detailed information on post-school pathways and experiences among the cohort of young people who took part in the Post-Primary Longitudinal Study, which followed around 900 students from first year to Leaving Certificate year in 12 case-study schools selected to capture key dimensions of school organisation. |
ESRI 2014 Selina McCoy, Emer Smyth, Dorothy Watson, |
IDEAS in Action in Youth Work |
Ideas In Action In Youth Work is a free, flexible and practical new resource in which the theory underpinning youth work meets practice. It was designed by Dr John Bamber of CES in response to the gap that youth workers identified between theory and practice as it is experienced in the field. |
CES 2014 |
| Keeping them in the Game | Growing evidence linking low levels of physical activity to poor health means that sports policy has become an important contributor to public health. This report shows that participation in regular sporting activity is almost universal among primary school children – what happens subsequently is what matters. Many children drop out during the second-level years. Drop-out is faster among early school leavers. Children are more likely to give up extra-curricular sport at school than activities undertaken outside of school. Girls are more likely to drop out than boys. |
ESRI 2013 |
| A Guide to Children’s EU Rights in Ireland | This short volume aims to explain to children and those who work with children what EU rights they do have and how they would go about vindicating those rights. | Childrens Rights Alliance |
| A Journal of Youth Work | SPEAKING EVIDENCE TO YOUTH WORK – AND VICE VERSADr John Bamber, Centre for Effective Services, Dublin; Ann Power, Graduate Intern, Centre for Effective Services and Conor Rowley, National Youth Work Assessor, Ireland | 2012 |
| Child Trends | IMPROVING THE LIVES OF ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS: Out-of-School Time Programs That Have Significant Positive Impacts |
2012 |
| Key messages from Effective Community Development Programmes, a review of the international evidence | This publication summarises the key messages from the literature in relation to four aspects of the community type programme - management, design, delivery and evaluation. |
Bamber J CES 2012 |
| Evaluating Complex Community Change Initiatives | – balancing science, politics and stakeholder dynamics Workshopping a ‘real world’ example from Ireland: The case of ‘youngballymun’ | Various CES 2012 |
| Report Card 2012 | This year the Children’s Alliance has given the Government its best result in four years - an overall ‘C+’ grade for its progress to date on its key promises to children. Find out why? | 2012 |
| Vocational Education Wolf Report | For far too long vocational learning has been seen as the poor relation of academic learning. This report although based on the English experience poses many questions for the Irish educational system as well. |
UK Gov 2011 |
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