State of the Nation's Children
Department of Children and Youth Affairs
2006
To chart the wellbeing of children in Ireland, track changes over time, benchmark progress in Ireland relative to other countries and highlight policy issues arising.
National — children aged 0–17 years.
The State of the Nation’s Children report provides a description of child wellbeing in Ireland. It brings together information from administrative, survey and census data. The report is arranged around four broad categories, these are socio-demographics, children’s relationships, children’s outcomes, formal and informal supports. The Research and Evaluation Unit within the Department of Children and Youth Affairs prepares this publication, with input provided by a variety of data providers (see ‘Data providers’ below).
Socio-demographics; children’s outcomes health; children’s outcomes social, emotional and behavioural; formal and informal supports.
The following sources are used to compile this report:
- Central Statistics Office (CSO): Census of the Population
- CSO: Vital Statistics
- CSO: European Union Survey of Income and Living conditions (EU-SILC)
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Database (Programmes Implementation Platform)
- Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Summary of Social Housing Assessments
- Department of Justice and Equality: Annual Report of the Committee Appointed to Monitor the Effectiveness of the Diversion Programme (An Garda Síochána)
- Educational Research Centre: Programme for International Student Assessment Survey
- Healthcare Pricing Office (HPO): National Perinatal Reporting System (NPRS)
- HPO: Hospital In-Patient Enquiry (HIPE) System
- Health Promotion Research Centre, NUI Galway: Health Behaviour of School-Aged Children Survey
- Health Protection Surveillance Centre: Immunisation Uptake Statistics
- Health Research Board (HRB): National Intellectual Disability Database
- HRB: National Physical and Sensory Disability Database
- Health Service Executive Performance Indicators
- HIPE
- National Psychiatric In-Patient Reporting System
- National Suicide Research Foundation: National Self-Harm Registry
- National Nutrition Surveillance Centre: European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative
- National Treatment Purchase Fund: Patient Treatment Register
- Population Estimates, CSO
- Quarterly National Household Survey
- Summary of Social Housing Assessments, Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government
- Tusla, the Child and Family Agency: Review of Adequacy Reports
- Tusla, the Child and Family Agency: Primary and Post-Primary Pupil Annual School Attendance
- Tusla, the Child and Family Agency: Outturn of Monthly Activity Data Returns and Quarterly Performance Indicator Returns.
The Research and Evaluation Unit of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs compile data from the most recent and reliable survey, census and administrative sources as listed above via direct contact with the sources and or drawing on existing published data.
Biennially.
Available on the Department of Children and Youth Affairs’ website (www.dcya.gov.ie). Hard copies available from Government Publications or Department of Children and Youth Affairs on request.
Yes
The State of the Nation’s Children series has continued as part of the implementation of the National Strategy for Research and Data on Children’s Lives, 2011–2016.