Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 8 June 2016
683. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 927 of 31 May 2016, the projects or organisations that have received funding from the Atlantic Philanthropies in 2015 and those forecast to receive the proposed funding for 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14984/16]
View answerIn May 2014 Tusla applied to Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) for a grant to support the intensive implementation of the Prevention, Partnership and Family Support programme (PPFS). The objective of this grant application was to seek funding to support the implementation of previous Atlantic funded work in the area of Prevention, Partnership and Family Support. In particular the grant provides the means through which Tusla is able to provide intensive implementation of a nationwide programme to enhance area based approaches to PPFS and a national practice model for all agencies working with children, young people and families. The AP grant is designed to enable Tusla to build better intra agency and inter agency capacity to implement key practice and process changes to ensure Tusla's prevention and early intervention system is operating effectively and delivering a high quality, standardised and nationally consistent service to children and families.
The Galway University Foundation (NUIG) is the recipient of the Atlantic Philanthropies funding in the first instance which is then allocated to Tusla in instalments over the life of the grant (2015 - 2018) against an agreed national programme. The majority of the AP funding received is spent within Tusla on items such as staff training on the PPFS programme. In 2015 the funding was also partly utilised by Tusla to commission work from EPIC (Development of Children's Fora ); IFCA ( Development of Peer Support groups ); Investing in Children (Quality Assurance in Participatory Practice) and Keenaghan Collaborative (Development of National Train the Trainers programme in Participatory Practice with Children and Young People). In 2016 Tusla will continue to commission this work as outlined. In addition in 2016 Tusla will commission work from Dr. Carmel Corrigan (Development of National Children's Charter) and Quality Matters (Development of the provision of support to carers). Furthermore a small seed funding grant will be made available to each of the seventeen areas to support initiatives in Participation & Parenting. This is at an early stage and the recipients have not yet been selected.
