Appeal for review of disability job cuts

Irish Examiner

SEVEN full-time jobs and 24 trainee positions at a factory for people with mental disabilities are at risk because of HSE funding cuts, it was . . . → Read More: Appeal for review of disability job cuts

Ill father ‘forced to keep daughter home’ after cuts

Irish Independent

AN invalid in constant pain says he will have to keep his 14-year-old daughter out of school after his home care was slashed by . . . → Read More: Ill father ‘forced to keep daughter home’ after cuts

Surge in children referred to HSE crisis unit

Irish Examiner A RECORD number of children required crisis intervention from the HSE last year, with the executive admitting that there is a “significant under-resourcing” of . . . → Read More: Surge in children referred to HSE crisis unit

Funding cuts – We can’t let services be torn apart

Irish Examiner

The Irish Examiner begins the first day of a two-part investigation today in relation to the cutback in services for “our most vulnerable”.

The Health . . . → Read More: Funding cuts – We can’t let services be torn apart

HSE care of children ‘unacceptable’

Irish Examiner

CHILDREN in a care home run by the Health Service Executive (HSE) — including one child whose home it has been for the past . . . → Read More: HSE care of children ‘unacceptable’

HSE recruitment process concerns

Irish Examiner

THE state’s public spending watchdog has asked the HSE for information on its recruitment process after claims that senior managers in the health service, . . . → Read More: HSE recruitment process concerns

Cries for help going unanswered

Irish Examiner

HSE’s system allows troubled teens to suffer on, writes Jennifer Hough

IT was clear to all the professionals involved in his case that long . . . → Read More: Cries for help going unanswered

Bulk of HSE files on deaths pass to experts

Irish Examiner

MOST of the HSE files regarding the deaths of children in the care system have been passed to the experts charged with reviewing their . . . → Read More: Bulk of HSE files on deaths pass to experts

Finlay questions ability to protect children

Irish Times

THE PUBLIC’S faith in Ireland’s child protection system has been shattered, an Oireachtas committee has heard.

The chief executive of the children’s charity Barnardos, Fergus . . . → Read More: Finlay questions ability to protect children

‘HSE is incapable of protecting children,’ says expert

Irish Independent

ONE of the experts reviewing the deaths of children in care has claimed that the HSE is incapable of fulfilling its role of protecting children.

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