County Tipperary is one of four pilot areas selected as part of Ireland’s Local Area Child Poverty Action plan to deliver the European Child Guarantee.
Tipperary’s Children and Young People’s Services Committee and the Tipperary Local Community and Development Committee will receive €85,000 out of national allocation of €378,000.
The other pilot areas are in Dun Laoghaire, Kildare and Monaghan – the four were selected from 23 applications received by the Department of Children, Youth, Disability, Integration and Equality.
The Child Guarantee is a European Commission initiative, which sets out to ensure that at the very least the most vulnerable children in the EU will have access to healthcare, childcare, education, housing and adequate nutrition.
The Tipperary project aims to enhance living conditions and reduce child poverty by improving energy efficiency and service integration.
The pilot will focus on energy auditing and profiling to improve household energy efficiency and security and will assess how these interventions impact poverty indicators.
Under this scheme, each council was invited to submit a joint application for up to €100,000 in funding to design and implement a pilot plan that will respond to their local realities and contexts while utilising existing co-ordination structures.
The Funding is being made available from the Dormant Accounts Fund (DAF).
