# child-protection - Yesterday’s News
Child protection expert Shane Dunphy writes that the allegations are credible and consistent but cannot now be proven definitively.
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# child-protection - Sunday 3 March, 2019
The summit heard that the canon law protection of ‘pontifical secret’ had been applied to numerous clerical abuse cases. Bizarrely, it was suggested that this practice should not continue – indicating that it is ongoing. writes Shane Dunphy.
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# child-protection - Thursday 28 February, 2019
Scouting Ireland says these concerns were never raised with the organisation.
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# child-protection - Wednesday 27 February, 2019
Tusla says an ‘immediate review’ of the current standards around the supervision of children should be undertaken.
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# child-protection - Monday 11 February, 2019
Would you be happy for your six-year-old to have unlimited, unsupervised access to a firearm – perhaps if it had been modified to only shoot lighter loads? asks Shane Dunphy.
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# child-protection - Sunday 3 February, 2019
We have an ethical responsibility to face up to the dark truth that children perpetrate violence and equally we have an ethical responsibility to show empathy for victim’s families, writes Shane Dunphy.
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# child-protection - Monday 21 January, 2019
In another case the court heard a pre-school age child may have been sexually abused while in foster care.
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# child-protection - Sunday 20 January, 2019
21st-century parenting is the reason that many young people today have remarkably poor coping skills, writes Shane Dunphy.
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# child-protection - Thursday 29 November, 2018
The Scouting Ireland scandal reminds us that more than 90% of child sex abusers are known to their victims and predators are experts at blending in, writes child protection expert, Shane Dunphy.
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# child-protection - Wednesday 21 November, 2018
The First 5 plan is one in a long line of strategies to protect children but nothing ever changes on the ground, writes child protection expert, Shane Dunphy.
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# child-protection - Tuesday 2 October, 2018
Digital material, computers and mobile phones were seized in the searches which took place over the last five days.
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# child-protection - Wednesday 27 June, 2018
CRI Alerts have only been used by gardaí on six occasions since their introduction.
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# child-protection - Wednesday 6 June, 2018
The name, address and the risk the offender poses could be released on a case-by-case basis under the proposed new law.
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# child-protection - Tuesday 5 June, 2018
A major report has found that the courts aren’t adequately resourced to deal with complex cases.
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# child-protection - Monday 28 May, 2018
72% of phone calls answered by the charity came from males.
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# child-protection - Thursday 24 May, 2018
Special Rapporteur for Children Dr Geoffrey Shannon said there has been no significant follow-up from garda management after it asked him last year to help with training.
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# child-protection - Wednesday 16 May, 2018
The government had put forward a proposal to set the digital age of consent at 13.
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# child-protection - Friday 13 April, 2018
The funding freeze comes after a man in the organisation was reinstated, without garda vetting, despite a rape allegation being made against him.
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# child-protection - Saturday 28 October, 2017
Here’s all the news you need to know as you start your long weekend.
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# child-protection - Thursday 19 October, 2017
This represents a 5% increase from 2015 figures.
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# child-protection - Sunday 24 September, 2017
Professor Geoffrey Shannon published a comprehensive audit of the gardaí’s child protection practices in May.
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# child-protection - Tuesday 30 May, 2017
A report published yesterday found chronic systemic failures in the functions carried out by Tusla.
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A shocking report published yesterday highlights cases of abuse and neglect of children in this country – and the State’s efforts to protect them.
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# child-protection - Monday 29 May, 2017
A report published today found serious issues with inter-agency cooperation when dealing with vulnerable children taken from their parents.
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# child-protection - Monday 22 May, 2017
McBride was speaking at the launch of Tusla’s new child protection and welfare strategy for 2017-2022.
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# child-protection - Monday 19 December, 2016
At the launch of its annual report, the RCNI spoke about consent, abortion and how we judge teenage victims.
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# child-protection - Thursday 17 December, 2015
The Garda Vetting Unit are not currently required to seek information from police outside the State about people who have lived abroad.
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# child-protection - Monday 6 July, 2015
Yesterday’s result will have inspired millions across Europe that the forces of the 1% can be taken on.
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# child-protection - Friday 3 July, 2015
A new report looks at child protection services in North Dublin.
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# child-protection - Monday 8 June, 2015
Social workers say they feel “ethically compromised” by the suggestion.
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The number of cases yet to be assigned to a social worker has reduced by just over 5% since the end of 2014.
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# child-protection - Thursday 28 May, 2015
A garda was arrested today over leaks to the media in the case.
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# child-protection - Monday 25 May, 2015
A report today said the children were moved before any assessment could take place and this hindered one of the investigations.
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# child-protection - Wednesday 20 May, 2015
New figures have shown the number of criminals on the sex offenders list.
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# child-protection - Tuesday 24 March, 2015
Some children had been waiting four years for a social worker.
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# child-protection - Sunday 21 December, 2014
A TD and child protection expert are calling for the legislation to ban vigilante ‘paedophile hunters’.
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# child-protection - Monday 24 November, 2014
Frances Fitzgerald said a cross-border inquiry was being considered.
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# child-protection - Tuesday 4 November, 2014
Charlie Flanagan wants the issue discussed by Government.
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# child-protection - Sunday 7 September, 2014
The Ombudsman for Children said that ‘vulnerable’ boys should be removed to Weatfield Prison.
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# child-protection - Tuesday 2 September, 2014
Child protection continues to be a problem in Ireland said Emily Logan.
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