# child-protection - Wednesday 5 May, 2021
# Child Protection
# Child Protection
Tusla said perpetrators may have been involved in the abuse of multiple children over time.
# child-protection - Tuesday 27 April, 2021
# Children
# Children
Staff at one centre were found to have not been vetted to work with children.
# child-protection - Sunday 18 October, 2020
# Risk
From The42
# Risk
Dr Una May of Sport Ireland and Swim Ireland’s Kate Hills on child protection in Irish sport.
# child-protection - Wednesday 16 September, 2020
# Child Protection
# Child Protection
Dr Niall Muldoon said vulnerable children are finding it much more difficult to manage through the pandemic.
# child-protection - Saturday 30 May, 2020
# Child Protection
# Child Protection
Internal risk reports expressed concern about the impact of reduced home visits and face-to-face meetings.
# child-protection - Friday 8 May, 2020
# Abuse And Neglect
# Abuse And Neglect
Teachers and other professionals play a role in reporting suspected cases of child abuse – but schools are now closed until September.
# child-protection - Sunday 23 February, 2020
# Child Protection
# Child Protection
The OSCE’s special representative for combating human trafficking said children in foster care or those who came from abusive backgrounds are particularly vulnerable.
# child-protection - Thursday 20 June, 2019
# Child Protection
# Child Protection
Calls for an online safety Oireachtas committee were heard in the Dáil today.
# child-protection - Sunday 2 June, 2019
# Column
# Column
They may be the apple of your eye but a break from the little darlings might just be the best part of your holiday, writes Shane Dunphy.
# child-protection - Monday 29 April, 2019
# Child Protection
# Child Protection
From July pornography sites will be required to have robust age-verification systems in place for UK users.
# child-protection - Sunday 21 April, 2019
# Column
# Column
‘I have no problem with due process, but when this gets in the way of truth and allows a culture of secrecy and collusion to continue, then we need to re-evaluate’, writes Shane Dunphy.
# child-protection - Tuesday 2 April, 2019
# Social Media Regulation
# Social Media Regulation
Three TDs met with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the Merrion Hotel in Dublin today
# Opinion
# Opinion
Of all reported cases of child sexual violence only 2% end in a conviction. Children whose disclosures don’t result in a criminal conviction still need protection, writes Dr Clíona Saidléar.
# child-protection - Sunday 17 March, 2019
# Column
# Column
Child protection expert Shane Dunphy writes that the allegations are credible and consistent but cannot now be proven definitively.
# child-protection - Sunday 3 March, 2019
# Opinion
# Opinion
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.
# child-protection - Thursday 28 February, 2019
# Child Protection
# Child Protection
Scouting Ireland says these concerns were never raised with the organisation.
# child-protection - Wednesday 27 February, 2019
# Scouting Ireland
# Scouting Ireland
Tusla says an ‘immediate review’ of the current standards around the supervision of children should be undertaken.
# child-protection - Monday 11 February, 2019
# Opinion
# Opinion
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.
# child-protection - Sunday 3 February, 2019
# Column
# Column
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.
# child-protection - Monday 21 January, 2019
# Children In Care
# Children In Care
In another case the court heard a pre-school age child may have been sexually abused while in foster care.
# child-protection - Sunday 20 January, 2019
# Column
# Column
21st-century parenting is the reason that many young people today have remarkably poor coping skills, writes Shane Dunphy.
# child-protection - Thursday 29 November, 2018
# Column
# Column
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.
# child-protection - Wednesday 21 November, 2018
# Opinion
# Opinion
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.
# child-protection - Tuesday 2 October, 2018
# Operation Ketch
# Operation Ketch
Digital material, computers and mobile phones were seized in the searches which took place over the last five days.
# child-protection - Wednesday 27 June, 2018
# Child Protection
# Child Protection
CRI Alerts have only been used by gardaí on six occasions since their introduction.
# child-protection - Wednesday 6 June, 2018
# Child Protection
# Child Protection
The name, address and the risk the offender poses could be released on a case-by-case basis under the proposed new law.
# child-protection - Tuesday 5 June, 2018
# Child Protection
# Child Protection
A major report has found that the courts aren’t adequately resourced to deal with complex cases.
# child-protection - Monday 28 May, 2018
# Abuse
# Abuse
72% of phone calls answered by the charity came from males.
# child-protection - Thursday 24 May, 2018
# Child Protection
# Child Protection
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.
# child-protection - Wednesday 16 May, 2018
# Child Protection
# Child Protection
The government had put forward a proposal to set the digital age of consent at 13.
# child-protection - Friday 13 April, 2018
# Allegations
# Allegations
The funding freeze comes after a man in the organisation was reinstated, without garda vetting, despite a rape allegation being made against him.
# child-protection - Saturday 28 October, 2017
# child-protection - Thursday 19 October, 2017
# Child Abuse
# Child Abuse
This represents a 5% increase from 2015 figures.
# child-protection - Sunday 24 September, 2017
# Geoffrey Shannon
# Geoffrey Shannon
Professor Geoffrey Shannon published a comprehensive audit of the gardaí’s child protection practices in May.
# child-protection - Tuesday 30 May, 2017
# Child Care Act
# Child Care Act
A report published yesterday found chronic systemic failures in the functions carried out by Tusla.
# Child Protection
# Child Protection
A shocking report published yesterday highlights cases of abuse and neglect of children in this country – and the State’s efforts to protect them.
# child-protection - Monday 29 May, 2017
# Tusla
# Tusla
A report published today found serious issues with inter-agency cooperation when dealing with vulnerable children taken from their parents.
# child-protection - Monday 22 May, 2017
# Reform
# Reform
McBride was speaking at the launch of Tusla’s new child protection and welfare strategy for 2017-2022.
# child-protection - Monday 19 December, 2016
# Rape Crisis Network
# Rape Crisis Network
At the launch of its annual report, the RCNI spoke about consent, abortion and how we judge teenage victims.
# child-protection - Thursday 17 December, 2015
# Child Protection
# Child Protection
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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