# Foster Care
Advertisement
Last year
2023
Child Welfare
Call for urgent investigation into sexual exploitation of children in State care
Updated
22 Jun 2023
12.0k
All time
Voices
Opinion: 'Travelling to Limerick in search of college digs as a care-leaver felt so lonely'
Rory Brown
18 Sep 2022
21.8k
19
Foster parents
Fostering allowance becoming insufficient amid cost-of-living crisis, say carers
6 Aug 2022
20.4k
9
HIQA
Child in foster care not visited by social workers for more than three years
4 Aug 2022
20.6k
6
Voices
Fostering within the family needs support, resources - and regulation
Various
22 Dec 2021
8.9k
4
history repeating itself
'My foster father wiped down everything I touched': Call to tackle racism in social care
24 Apr 2021
53.1k
Voices
Opinion: 'She knocked on the door and the nun said her son was gone' - the story of the forgotten foster children
Jamie Canavan
31 Jan 2021
29.1k
12
Foster Care
Cases document foster children facing stress and isolation during Covid-19 restrictions
18 Jan 2021
12.7k
2
Apology
Tusla apologises to young woman for 'lack of support' after she was raped by her foster dad
19 Dec 2019
25.0k
19
Foster Care
Rape survivor on waiving her anonymity: ‘I just wanted to say - this is who he is and this is what he did’
19 Dec 2019
84.4k
39
Epic
Ten-fold increase in a decade in number of children from State care reaching out for help
21 Nov 2019
4.5k
3
tusla
Chair of Tusla says 'journey of reform' lies ahead with further improvements needed 'on a daily basis'
2 Nov 2019
15.3k
27
Exposed
Foster carers finally given insurance cover by the State following three-year long battle
31 Oct 2019
10.3k
10
Allocation of social workers to children in foster care 'chaotic', inspection finds
3 Oct 2019
7.8k
5
systemic failures
Taoiseach will act upon report which lists catalogue of failures into HSE and Tusla handling of foster home abuse case
23 May 2019
6.0k
Ombudsman
Ombudsman criticises HSE and TUSLA over care for children with disabilities
8 Apr 2019
9.1k
17
changing futures
New website launched to help explain to children in care why Tusla is in their lives
5 Mar 2019
9.7k
20
Courts
Foster mother takes Tusla to High Court over refusal to consider her as adoptive parent for child
25 Sep 2018
21.4k
Ombudsman
Foster mother gets backdated payment of €28,600 after Tusla cut her allowances
20 Jun 2018
23.0k
5
Late Late Show
Actor Barry Keoghan: '13 foster homes. If that's on paper you'd think "he's destined to mess up"'
14 Apr 2018
117k
36
HIQA
'Deeply concerning': Foster services criticised over lack of garda vetting and shortfall in carers
5 Apr 2018
7.9k
5
Molly's Case
Child with Down Syndrome and severe autism who was abandoned at birth was 'not receiving sufficient HSE and Tusla support'
15 Jan 2018
15.3k
17
FOSTERING
'They've two Christmasses. One with us and another with their birth family'
22 Dec 2017
16.5k
15
Foster Care
Michael Noonan’s handling of the ‘Grace' case will be examined next year
16 Nov 2017
6.8k
25
service gap
€19 million a year spent on private foster care because Tusla is overstretched
9 Nov 2017
9.6k
1
Limerick
'Out of control' teen admitted to hospital as Tusla had nowhere else to place him
29 Aug 2017
17.7k
State Care
Report into death of teen finds impact of separating her from younger sibling was not understood
8 Aug 2017
21.0k
27
checks
Some foster carers in Kerry, Galway and Roscommon are not being vetted enough
8 Aug 2017
7.4k
grandparents
'When I stopped working, I said I was going to put everything into these kids'
30 Jul 2017
35.6k
28
inadequate
'No Garda vetting, inadequate investigations' - Tusla slammed over standard of Cork foster care services
20 Jul 2017
14.3k
21
Taking Stock
'We need consistency': Long delays by Tusla in dealing with abuse allegations, report says
18 Jul 2017
7.3k
14
vulnerable children
Foster carers 'felt disrespected' by social workers, report finds
16 Jul 2017
9.8k
7
adoption bill
Children can now be adopted by their foster carers after 18 months
14 Jul 2017
32.3k
21
HIQA
'This should be the bare minimum we expect': Fostering service to close down in wake of damning report
12 Jul 2017
14.0k
2
Foster Care
Boy put back into residential care after 'loving' foster parents didn't get supports they begged for
7 Jul 2017
22.3k