Additional funding announced for Family Resource Centres nationwide

The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman, has announced €1.5m of additional funding for Family Resource Centres. 

This will ensure the new core funding level of Family Resource Centres will be €160,000 in 2025.

The additional funding will benefit 54 FRC’s around the country, with the lowest-funded centres receiving additional funding before the end of this year. 

This funding will allow the Family Resource Centres to increase their staffing numbers in some cases. It will support the important role that the centres play in many communities across the country by providing a range of services tailored to individual community needs.

While speaking about the announcement today, Minister O’Gorman revealed, “I have personally witnessed the positive impact FRCs have on communities and the vast range of work they do, and am delighted to be in a position to increase the core funding levels of these FRCs. I know that this has been a long-standing request of FRCs”.

“These increases are on top of the WRC agreement reached in October 2023. The increases I am announcing today will take effect in 2024 and will ensure that from next year onwards no FRC will receive less than €160,000 in core funding from my Department.

O’Gorman added, “This allocation will combat the increased costs some FRCs have faced and aid in expanding service provision. Any future increases to core funding across the programme will build off this new level. The increases will be paid to the centres by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency.”

The CEO of Tusla, Kate Duggan, said, “Tusla welcome today’s announcement by Minister O’Gorman of additional funding for Family Resource Centres, ensuring a new core funding level of €160,000. This investment will strengthen services provided in communities right across the country, positively impacting the children, young people, individuals, and families that live in these communities and benefit from Family Resources Services”.