# children-in-care - Tuesday 5 March, 2019
The website has been designed by young people with lived experience of the care system.
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# children-in-care - Saturday 16 February, 2019
A number of young people shared their experiences yesterday and said they want to erase the stigma attached to being in the care system.
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# children-in-care - 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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# children-in-care - Thursday 11 October, 2018
The findings were made as part of an unannounced inspection by HIQA in July.
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# children-in-care - Monday 17 September, 2018
“His experience in care is augmenting his experience of harm that brought him into care,” the judge said.
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# children-in-care - Saturday 18 November, 2017
An education fair is being held to showcase options for young people in care.
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# children-in-care - Tuesday 8 August, 2017
‘Clare’ was in foster care when she took her own life.
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# children-in-care - Monday 12 June, 2017
This case is just one of 22 being highlighted by the Child Care Law Reporting Project today.
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# children-in-care - Saturday 10 June, 2017
Guardians ad litem are appointed by the courts to give children a voice, but that task is by no means an easy one.
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# children-in-care - Sunday 2 April, 2017
There are many challenges around mental health and cultural identity in particular.
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# children-in-care - Saturday 19 November, 2016
The child and family agency is currently running a campaign looking for a home for one particular child.
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# children-in-care - Sunday 30 October, 2016
The chief executive of Tusla said the agency wants families to share more power and responsibility, and to “own their problems”.
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# children-in-care - Monday 26 September, 2016
Many of the children are removed from homes out-of-hours by gardaí.
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# children-in-care - Thursday 15 September, 2016
The children, who are both under the age of ten, will continue in the care of their foster parents.
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# children-in-care - Monday 29 August, 2016
A family court heard the child recently had an argument with his foster family.
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# children-in-care - Wednesday 17 August, 2016
The child had been placed in care because of family violence, parental alcohol use and neglect and remained in care until he was an adult.
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# children-in-care - Tuesday 16 August, 2016
Reports published today gave details of the lives of a number of young people know to the child and family agency who took their own lives.
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# children-in-care - Friday 1 January, 2016
The case of two children due to leave state care were discussed in court.
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# children-in-care - Tuesday 29 December, 2015
The children’s social worker said there is a plan in place to return the children to the mother’s care if she engages with drug user services.
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# children-in-care - Thursday 10 December, 2015
He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
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# children-in-care - Thursday 4 June, 2015
The most common form of abuse is neglect and some children suffer horrific physical and sexual abuse before the State is called on to intervene.
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# children-in-care - Monday 12 January, 2015
A Hiqa report found the care centre was not run in a way that the children were always safe and protected from themselves.
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# children-in-care - Friday 28 November, 2014
Detention in special care is for the child’s own welfare and protection.
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# children-in-care - Friday 21 November, 2014
One child had not been visited by a social worker in more than four years.
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# children-in-care - Monday 6 October, 2014
The judge said that the parents had the capacity to love their boys, but not the capacity to bring them up.
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The judge said that the children “lived in a bad place with bad people”.
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The case is outlined in the lastest volume of the Child Care Law Reporting Project.
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# children-in-care - Thursday 17 July, 2014
She was speaking during a Dáil debate on mother and baby homes.
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Susan had spent some time in the care of the State before her death at the age of 15 months.
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# children-in-care - Wednesday 16 July, 2014
More than three quarters of these children were living with their families at the time.
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The social work teams were commended for their handling of the case.
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Nicholas was just 17 when he died due to misuse of drugs.
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Tusla, the child and family agency has published four reports into the deaths of children in State care.
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# children-in-care - Sunday 22 June, 2014
A new report has found that 83 children were put into adult psychiatric units last year, despite guidelines forbidding this practice.
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# children-in-care - Tuesday 10 June, 2014
Senator Katherine Zappone thinks they need to be updated and will present a Bill on the subject in the Seanad today.
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# children-in-care - Thursday 9 January, 2014
Inspectors were unable to establish the legal remit for restricting children’s freedom of movement as they found the locking of the unit’s doors had become institutionalised.
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# children-in-care - Thursday 14 November, 2013
Another child was murdered while in HSE aftercare.
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The HSE has published reports on the deaths of six children in care or known to the HSE.
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# children-in-care - Tuesday 5 November, 2013
The Child Care Law Reporting Project described the figures as “striking” and questioned the effect of the direct provision system on child welfare.
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# children-in-care - Tuesday 7 May, 2013
“Given that there are currently 6,300 children in the care of the State – a relatively small number”, Emily Logan believes more should be done to support them.
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