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Saturday 19 September 2020
Dr Niall Muldoon said vulnerable children are finding it much more difficult to manage through the pandemic.
Internal risk reports expressed concern about the impact of reduced home visits and face-to-face meetings.
Teachers and other professionals play a role in reporting suspected cases of child abuse – but schools are now closed until September.
The OSCE’s special representative for combating human trafficking said children in foster care or those who came from abusive backgrounds are particularly vulnerable.
Calls for an online safety Oireachtas committee were heard in the Dáil today.
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.
From July pornography sites will be required to have robust age-verification systems in place for UK users.
‘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.
Three TDs met with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the Merrion Hotel in Dublin today
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 expert Shane Dunphy writes that the allegations are credible and consistent but cannot now be proven definitively.
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.
Scouting Ireland says these concerns were never raised with the organisation.
Tusla says an ‘immediate review’ of the current standards around the supervision of children should be undertaken.
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.
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.
In another case the court heard a pre-school age child may have been sexually abused while in foster care.
21st-century parenting is the reason that many young people today have remarkably poor coping skills, writes Shane Dunphy.
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.
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.
Digital material, computers and mobile phones were seized in the searches which took place over the last five days.
CRI Alerts have only been used by gardaí on six occasions since their introduction.
The name, address and the risk the offender poses could be released on a case-by-case basis under the proposed new law.
A major report has found that the courts aren’t adequately resourced to deal with complex cases.
72% of phone calls answered by the charity came from males.
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.
The government had put forward a proposal to set the digital age of consent at 13.
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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This represents a 5% increase from 2015 figures.
Professor Geoffrey Shannon published a comprehensive audit of the gardaí’s child protection practices in May.
A report published yesterday found chronic systemic failures in the functions carried out by Tusla.
A shocking report published yesterday highlights cases of abuse and neglect of children in this country – and the State’s efforts to protect them.
A report published today found serious issues with inter-agency cooperation when dealing with vulnerable children taken from their parents.
McBride was speaking at the launch of Tusla’s new child protection and welfare strategy for 2017-2022.
At the launch of its annual report, the RCNI spoke about consent, abortion and how we judge teenage victims.
The Garda Vetting Unit are not currently required to seek information from police outside the State about people who have lived abroad.
Yesterday’s result will have inspired millions across Europe that the forces of the 1% can be taken on.
A new report looks at child protection services in North Dublin.
Social workers say they feel “ethically compromised” by the suggestion.
MORE THAN THREE-quarters of people would support the government looking into the prospect of a four-day work week, according to a new survey.
This means doing the same job for the same salary, but over four days rather than five.
There have been calls for this idea to be explored already and the Four Day Week Ireland campaign today released details on its public attitude survey conducted last month.
Two out of three respondents said a four-day work week is “realistic and achievable” in the medium term.
67% of employers said they support the idea and 46% said it would be “feasible” to trial in their workplace.
“The four-day week, with no loss of pay, offers the potential of a genuinely better future for workers and employers alike,” said Joe O’Connor, director of campaigning with Fórsa trade union.
What may once have seemed like a radical concept is now, for many, a reasonable and rational ambition. The Covid-19 pandemic has further disrupted societal and workplace norms, while illustrating the potential for very different models of work.
So today we’re asking: Would you support a four-day work week?
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