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Area Based Childhood Programme

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 29 March 2018

Thursday, 29 March 2018

Ceisteanna (390)

Anne Rabbitte

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390. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the full year cost of operating each ABC centre since their establishment in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14868/18]

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The Area Based Childhood (ABC) Programme is a joint prevention and early intervention initiative, led by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA) in conjunction with The Atlantic Philanthropies (Atlantic). The aim of the ABC Programme is to test and evaluate prevention and early intervention approaches to improve outcomes for children and families living in 13 areas of disadvantage in Ireland.

The ABC Programme commenced in 2013 and was designed as a time-bound, co-funding agreement, originally in the amount of €29.7m for the period 2013-2017. In late 2016, my Department secured additional funding to ensure that all 13 existing ABC sites remained in contract to the end of December 2017. As at December 2017, the total funding provided to the ABC Programme was €32.76 million. Of this, DCYA provided €17.91m and Atlantic provided €14.85m.

With the closure of The Atlantic Philanthropies operations in Ireland, DCYA is now the sole funder of the ABC Programme. In last year’s budget, funding was secured to maintain the existing ABC Programme up to the end of 2018.

Each ABC area was awarded a three year budget based on their original applications for a three year period of activity, ranging from programme design, through development and full implementation. The reported spending varied greatly from year to year, depending on which programmes an area was implementing, the scale of these, and at what stage of implementation the area was at in a given year, among other considerations.

The following table shows the amount of grant funding for the ABC Programme provided to each ABC area from 2013 to 2017.

ABC Area

ABC Contract Start

ABC Grant Funding 2013

ABC Grant Funding 2014

ABC Grant Funding 2015

ABC Grant Funding 2016

ABC Grant Funding 2017

Total ABC Grant Funding         2013-2017

Ballymun

01/01/2013

€500,000

€1,750,000

€1,750,000

€1,200,000

€431,155

€5,631,155

Tallaght West

01/01/2013

€406,674

€1,423,360

€1,423,360

€406,674

€1,071,971

€4,732,039

Dublin Northside (Darndale)

01/01/2013

€304,000

€1,198,550

€500,850

€767,800

€973,643

€3,744,843

Clondalkin   

01/09/2014

-

€273,025

€382,235

€247,220

€372,851

€1,275,331

Louth

01/09/2014

-

€151,059

€755,295

€452,837

€452,379

€1,811,570

Dublin Docklands

08/09/2014

-

€120,000

€180,000

€660,000

€556,620

€1,516,620

Finglas

08/09/2014

-

-

€545,585

€424,344

€358,999

€1,328,928

Bray

01/12/2014

-

-

€209,500

€293,300

€335,200

€838,000

Knocknaheeny

01/01/2015

-

-

€450,000

€630,000

€720,000

€1,800,000

Grangegorman

01/01/2015

-

-

€235,207

€329,289

€457,988

€1,022,484

Ballyfermot

27/01/2015

-

-

€187,500

€412,500

€218,126

€818,126

Limerick

01/03/2015

-

-

€394,891

€552,847

€557,385

€1,505,123

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