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Growing Up in Ireland is a Government study. The Department of Children and Youth Affairs funds the study in association with the Department of Social Protection and the Central Statistics Office. The Department of Children and Youth Affairs is overseeing and managing the study, which is being carried out by a group of researchers led by the Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) and Trinity College Dublin. The most significant study of its kind ever to take place in Ireland, the main aim is to paint a full picture of children in Ireland and how they are developing in the current social, economic and cultural environment. It will measure the factors that affect the well-being of children in Irish families and contribute to the future design of policies and services to ensure all children can have the best possible start in life.
The main objectives of Growing Up in Ireland are:
- To describe the lives of children in Ireland, to establish what is typical and normal as well as atypical and problematic
- To chart the development of children over time, to examine the progress and well-being of children at critical periods from birth to adulthood
- To identify the key factors that, independently of others, most help or hinder children’s development
- To establish the effects of early childhood experiences on later life
- To map dimensions of variation in children’s lives
- To identify the persistent adverse effects that lead to social disadvantage and exclusion, educational difficulties, ill health and deprivation
- To obtain children’s views/opinions on their lives
- To provide a bank of data on the whole child
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