Vetting vital under ‘social employment’ plan, says FG

Irish Times

ANY PLANS to allow people receiving unemployment benefit to work with children or other vulnerable groups under a newly announced “social employment” scheme would have . . . → Read More: Vetting vital under ‘social employment’ plan, says FG

Dáil child welfare committee proposed

Irish Examiner

DÁIL deputies and senators are proposing to form a new sub-committee to deal with child welfare issues.

Chairman of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health, . . . → Read More: Dáil child welfare committee proposed

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.

. . . → Read More: ‘HSE is incapable of protecting children,’ says expert

Social workers’ concerns about children in care revealed in unpublished reports

Irish Examiner

THE Review of Adequacy of Child and Family Services is a statutory requirement under Section 8 of the Child Care Act, 1991.

The report outlines . . . → Read More: Social workers’ concerns about children in care revealed in unpublished reports

Calls to Childline surged by 25% last year

Irish Examiner

CHILDREN in despair made a staggering 800,000 calls to the ISPCC’s Childline last year, a surge of almost 25% from the previous year.

The unprecedented level of . . . → Read More: Calls to Childline surged by 25% last year

Constitution rewrite to protect child

Irish Times

A rewrite of Article 42 of the Constitution, entitled Education is to be proposed by the Oireachtas committee on a children’s rights amendment.

The committee is to . . . → Read More: Constitution rewrite to protect child

Roma House Of Horror

Sunday World Page 10 and 11

POLITCIANS and child protection agencies are up in arms after a sunday world investigation has uncoverd Roma children living in some of the . . . → Read More: Roma House Of Horror