Tuesday 26 January, 2021
The HSE has published reports on the deaths of six children in care or known to the HSE.
The Child Care Law Reporting Project described the figures as “striking” and questioned the effect of the direct provision system on child welfare.
“Given that there are currently 6,300 children in the care of the State – a relatively small number”, Emily Logan believes more should be done to support them.
Emotional language and arguments as Frances Fitzgerald and Fergus Finlay argued for a ‘Yes’ vote as John Waters and Kathy Sinnott argued for a ‘No’.
Kathy Sinnott is taking the ‘No’ side in the Vincent Browne-hosted debate on the upcoming children’s referendum. The FG director of elections called her claims on RTÉ’s Prime Time last night as “scaremongering”.
The number of orders allowing the HSE to take children into care more than doubled last year, according to the courts.
The Report on Deaths of Children in Care revealed horrific failures, writes Fianna Fáil’s spokesperson on Children Charlie McConalogue, but will everything be fine once we pass the Children’s Rights referendum?
Emily Logan also said her office met with “resistance” when investigating children in care.
There has been plenty of reaction to a report which examined the deaths of 196 children and young people in contact with State services between 2000 and 2010.
The Independent Child Death Review Group underlines a catalogue of major failings of the State’s child support services.
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More children known to child protection services have died so far this year than in the whole of last year.
Minister for Children says that the AG’s advice has been sought over the report before its publication.
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Man and woman had been arrested in Co Down and were questioned by PSNI detectives.
The state has recruited an extra 133 child care social workers so far.
