St Vincent De Paul Face Unprecedented Pressure for Support<\/p>\n
Dublin South West representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD has described reports
\nof up to 10,000 struggling families across Tallaght and Clondalkin
\nbeing supported by St Vincent de Paul (SVP) with back-to-school cost
\nas unprecedented but hardly surprising.<\/p>\n
Crowe said that traditionally at this time of year with children
\nreturning to school there is huge financial pressures on parents with
\nclearly the buzz talk of a recovery not filtering into the mind-set
\nof these families.<\/p>\n
Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is an unprecedented demand on the St Vincent De Paul
\nparticularly at this time of the year as more and more parents
\nstruggle and are turning the charity to meet the growing
\nback-to-school costs.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs children return to school this week, the\u00a0 St Vincent De Paul is
\nexpecting to pay out over a \u20ac100,000 to assist over 10,000 hard
\npressed parents with the cost of fees, books, uniforms and other
\nancillary costs in Tallaght and the Clondalkin area.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany of the families are new and reflect the growing amount of cash
\npoor individuals and family units.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe talk of recovery and a new beginning is nonsensical and seems like a
\nmillion miles away. The recovery buzz words have not filtered into the
\nmind-set of many of these families struggling to make ends meet.<\/p>\n
\u201cDemands on some parents locally have been exasperated in recent weeks,
\nas many families were left waiting for the Government\u2019s
\n\u2018back-to-school\u2019 grant \u2013 a payment which covers a fraction of a
\nchild\u2019s back-to-school costs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Back to School Allowance is available to a small cohort of
\nfamilies but many complain that aside from the delay it is not fit for
\npurpose, with the gap between the allowance and the cost of sending a
\nchild to school growing every year.<\/p>\n
\u201cCurrently the means tested grant is available for children between 4
\nyears – 11years is 100 euro, between 12 years \u2013 22 years, it is 200
\neuro, with the stipulation that the student between the age of 18
\nyears and 22 years has to be attending second level education.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith many families already crippled by austerity measures and
\nincreased charges, the biggest worry at this time of the year is
\nsourcing expensive new uniforms and other additional equipment to send
\ntheir children to school.<\/p>\n
\u201cBack to School Cost continue to rise with many families relying on
\ncharities like St Vincent De Paul for additional support. It should
\ncome as no surprise to anyone that the demands are increasing rather
\ndecreasing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
St Vincent De Paul Face Unprecedented Pressure for Support Dublin South West representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD has described reports of up to 10,000 struggling families across Tallaght and Clondalkin being supported by St Vincent de Paul (SVP) with back-to-school cost as unprecedented but hardly surprising. Crowe said that traditionally at this time of year with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}