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Wednesday 2 December 2020
The Child Care Law Reporting Project published its latest reports today.
Internal risk reports expressed concern about the impact of reduced home visits and face-to-face meetings.
The website has been designed by young people with lived experience of the care system.
A number of young people shared their experiences yesterday and said they want to erase the stigma attached to being in the care system.
In another case the court heard a pre-school age child may have been sexually abused while in foster care.
The findings were made as part of an unannounced inspection by HIQA in July.
“His experience in care is augmenting his experience of harm that brought him into care,” the judge said.
An education fair is being held to showcase options for young people in care.
‘Clare’ was in foster care when she took her own life.
This case is just one of 22 being highlighted by the Child Care Law Reporting Project today.
Guardians ad litem are appointed by the courts to give children a voice, but that task is by no means an easy one.
There are many challenges around mental health and cultural identity in particular.
The child and family agency is currently running a campaign looking for a home for one particular child.
The chief executive of Tusla said the agency wants families to share more power and responsibility, and to “own their problems”.
Many of the children are removed from homes out-of-hours by gardaí.
The children, who are both under the age of ten, will continue in the care of their foster parents.
A family court heard the child recently had an argument with his foster family.
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.
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.
The case of two children due to leave state care were discussed in court.
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.
He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
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.
A Hiqa report found the care centre was not run in a way that the children were always safe and protected from themselves.
Detention in special care is for the child’s own welfare and protection.
One child had not been visited by a social worker in more than four years.
The judge said that the parents had the capacity to love their boys, but not the capacity to bring them up.
The judge said that the children “lived in a bad place with bad people”.
The case is outlined in the lastest volume of the Child Care Law Reporting Project.
She was speaking during a Dáil debate on mother and baby homes.
Susan had spent some time in the care of the State before her death at the age of 15 months.
More than three quarters of these children were living with their families at the time.
The social work teams were commended for their handling of the case.
Nicholas was just 17 when he died due to misuse of drugs.
Tusla, the child and family agency has published four reports into the deaths of children in State care.
A new report has found that 83 children were put into adult psychiatric units last year, despite guidelines forbidding this practice.
Senator Katherine Zappone thinks they need to be updated and will present a Bill on the subject in the Seanad today.
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.
Another child was murdered while in HSE aftercare.
The HSE has published reports on the deaths of six children in care or known to the HSE.
THE SHOPS ARE back, festive music is playing and the weather is going to get absolutely Baltic this week. Even though it’s been a strange year, you’d know Christmas is on the way.
But although it’s a time for giving and the shops are open again, the usual scenes of charity fundraisers on the streets will likely be less frequent due to public health concerns.
Many people make a point of putting some money, food or other items away to make a donation to a particular cause around this time of year, and will likely have to go a bit out of their way to do so in 2020.
Are you one of those people? This morning we want to know: Will you be giving to charity this Christmas?
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