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# Social Workers

This year
2024
Tusla struggling to recruit social workers amid large increase in child welfare referrals, CEO says
6 Feb
13.8k
Last year
2023
'Dublin is a different place': Inner city youth workers say pandemic still casts a long shadow
7 Aug 2023
48.1k
81
Sexual and domestic abuse victims can feel 'belittled' by social workers, report finds
3 May 2023
8.5k
4
All time
'Nobody is dying alone here': How one hospice is dealing with end of life care during the Covid-19 crisis
21 Apr 2020
17.0k
2
The Sick and Indigent Roomkeepers Society: Dublin's oldest charity and its plan to make it to 2040
25 Dec 2018
25.9k
7
Tusla's new national database will keep records of children on file 'in perpetuity'
31 Aug 2018
11.5k
25
Social workers have to develop skills to deal with allegations of historical abuse 'on the hoof'
29 Mar 2018
9.0k
10
Social work action 'unacceptably slow' in case of heroin user whose newborn died
13 Aug 2017
22.5k
36
'I understand why a lot of people leave': Being a social worker in Ireland
12 Aug 2017
43.7k
31
The challenges of integrating migrant children in Ireland's care
2 Apr 2017
8.7k
13
More than 150 court summonses sent to parents about poor school attendance
23 Aug 2016
11.2k
16
Care order extended for child whose mother tested positive for cocaine, cannabis and sedatives
2 Aug 2016
17.0k
18
"Social workers have learned to simply ignore the attacks": In defence of social workers
Diarmaid Twomey
18 Jun 2016
2.5k
66
A social worker's perspective: We need to rethink the way we help vulnerable children
Dónal O'Malley
15 Apr 2016
1.4k
26
'Unnerving' proposal could see sexual abuse victims be questioned by alleged abusers
8 Jun 2015
10.5k
21
Children put at 'significant risk' in Cork by State services
24 Mar 2015
9.4k
7
'The impact on your sanity is incredible': One social worker per week resigning
9 Jan 2015
26.9k
45
Evening Wrap
The 5 at 5 5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
31 Dec 2014
6.8k
Here's how many social worker vacancies there are nationwide
31 Dec 2014
18.5k
18
More than 100 children in foster care have no social worker
21 Nov 2014
7.0k
9
How many children were sent to detention schools this year?
25 Oct 2014
13.6k
12
Children in State care being 'placed in danger of abuse and exploitation'
22 Jun 2014
6.2k
21
Complaints to Children's Ombudsman have increased by 15% since 2010
10 Jun 2014
4.6k
4
Student social workers slam proposed graduate scheme as 'complete exploitation'
9 Mar 2014
19.0k
55
'It's taking 12 weeks to fill a social worker post - that's too long'
30 Jan 2014
6.5k
30
Reports: Good quality foster care, but some unapproved carers
25 Jul 2013
3.5k
2
Column: Care system had been well funded - so why didn't it work?
Charlie McConalogue
25 Jun 2012
71
12
Homeless children should be accommodated outside Dublin city centre, says Ombudsman
13 Apr 2012
3.8k
14
Column: ‘My family couldn’t look after me’ – life inside a State home
Clíodhna
19 Oct 2011
50
11
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things to know this morning…
5 Aug 2011
2.9k
2
'Real progress' being made on Ryan Report recommendations
19 Jul 2011
648