New Beginning Group Competitors

On the 1st of January 2014 the Child and Family agency became an independent legal entity, comprising HSE Children & Family Services, Family Support Agency and the National Educational Welfare Board as well as incorporating some psychological services and a range of services responding to domestic, sexual and gender based violence. The Child and Family Agency is now the dedicated State agency responsible for improving wellbeing and outcomes for children. It represents the most comprehensive reform of child protection, early intervention and family support services ever undertaken in Ireland. It is an ambitious move which brings together some 4,000 staff and an operational budget of approximately €600m. The Agency operates under the Child and Family Agency Act 2013, a progressive piece of legislation with children at its heart, and families viewed as the foundation of a strong healthy community where children can flourish. Partnership and co-operation in the delivery of seamless services to children and families are also central to the Act. The establishment represents an opportunity to think differently, where appropriate to behave differently and to seek a wide range of views regarding the most effective way of working together to deliver a wide range of services for children and families. An approach which is responsive, inclusive and outward looking. Our Services The Child and Family Agency’s services include a range of universal and targeted services: 1. Child protection and welfare services 2. Educational Welfare Services 3. Psychological Services 4. Alternative care 5. Family and Locally-based Community Supports 6. Early Years Services 7. Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Services

At Barnardos, we have been helping vulnerable children in Ireland since the 1960s. Our core purpose remains the same; ‘to help the most vulnerable children in society achieve their full potential – regardless of their family circumstances, their gender, race or disability.’ Our ambition for 2027 is to deliver a wider and deeper range of services and supports. As a trauma-informed specialist organisation we have embedded the trauma-informed ethos and practice into all aspects of how we operate We are devoted to making Barnardos an attractive place to both work and volunteer. Our strategic framework is based on these five strategic priorities: Impact Invest Innovate Inform Influence Our Services: www.barnardos.ie/our-services For latest job opportunities with Barnardos: www.barnardos.ie/jobs RCN 20010027 / CHY 6015

Focus Ireland works with people experiencing homelessness or at risk of losing their homes across Ireland. We believe that everyone has a right to a place they can call home. We are driven by the fundamental belief that homelessness is wrong. Wrong because it is a failure of society that creates victims out of ordinary people and robs them of their potential. Wrong because it can be prevented, it can be solved but is allowed to continue and in doing so, undermines society. We need to challenge our society to think and act differently. We are committed to challenging everything about homelessness; the causes, systemic failures, people’s perceptions and how it is tackled and we challenge ourselves in how we allocate resources to maximise our ability to prevent people from falling into homelessness and to help people find and keep a home. Homelessness is wrong and we make that felt in every thing we do and say. For more information about our work or to make a donation, please visit our website at FocusIreland.ie Focus Ireland Charity Number CHY 7220