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Foster Care
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2023
Child Welfare
Call for urgent investigation into sexual exploitation of children in State care
12.0k
Updated
Jun 22nd 2023, 4:02 PM
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Opinion:
'Travelling to Limerick in search of college digs as a care-leaver felt so lonely'
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21.8k
Sep 18th 2022, 7:45 AM
Foster parents
Fostering allowance becoming insufficient amid cost-of-living crisis, say carers
9
20.4k
Aug 6th 2022, 7:00 AM
HIQA
Child in foster care not visited by social workers for more than three years
6
20.6k
Aug 4th 2022, 4:17 PM
Voices
Fostering within the family needs support, resources - and regulation
4
8.9k
Dec 22nd 2021, 7:00 AM
history repeating itself
'My foster father wiped down everything I touched': Call to tackle racism in social care
53.1k
Apr 24th 2021, 8:00 PM
Voices
Opinion:
'She knocked on the door and the nun said her son was gone' - the story of the forgotten foster children
12
29.1k
Jan 31st 2021, 8:30 AM
Foster Care
Cases document foster children facing stress and isolation during Covid-19 restrictions
2
12.7k
Jan 18th 2021, 7:10 AM
Apology
Tusla apologises to young woman for 'lack of support' after she was raped by her foster dad
19
25.0k
Dec 19th 2019, 12:06 AM
Foster Care
Rape survivor on waiving her anonymity: ‘I just wanted to say - this is who he is and this is what he did’
39
84.4k
Dec 19th 2019, 12:05 AM
Epic
Ten-fold increase in a decade in number of children from State care reaching out for help
3
4.5k
Nov 21st 2019, 6:00 AM
Foster Care
Man jailed for 12 years for raping his 16-year-old foster daughter
18.9k
Nov 13th 2019, 2:19 PM
tusla
Chair of Tusla says 'journey of reform' lies ahead with further improvements needed 'on a daily basis'
27
15.3k
Nov 2nd 2019, 9:15 AM
Exposed
Foster carers finally given insurance cover by the State following three-year long battle
10
10.3k
Oct 31st 2019, 6:00 AM
Allocation of social workers to children in foster care 'chaotic', inspection finds
5
7.8k
Oct 3rd 2019, 12:54 PM
systemic failures
Taoiseach will act upon report which lists catalogue of failures into HSE and Tusla handling of foster home abuse case
6.0k
May 23rd 2019, 4:41 PM
Ombudsman
Ombudsman criticises HSE and TUSLA over care for children with disabilities
17
9.1k
Apr 8th 2019, 9:02 AM
changing futures
New website launched to help explain to children in care why Tusla is in their lives
20
9.7k
Mar 5th 2019, 12:39 PM
Children in Care
Judge told child in rural Irish town may have been trafficked
12
31.5k
Jan 21st 2019, 6:01 AM
Courts
Foster mother takes Tusla to High Court over refusal to consider her as adoptive parent for child
21.4k
Sep 25th 2018, 8:29 PM
nowhere to go
Nine-year-old boy in care moved five different times in 13 days
30.9k
Sep 17th 2018, 12:15 AM
Ombudsman
Foster mother gets backdated payment of €28,600 after Tusla cut her allowances
5
23.0k
Jun 20th 2018, 10:58 AM
Late Late Show
Actor Barry Keoghan: '13 foster homes. If that's on paper you'd think "he's destined to mess up"'
36
117k
Apr 14th 2018, 7:42 AM
HIQA
'Deeply concerning': Foster services criticised over lack of garda vetting and shortfall in carers
5
7.9k
Apr 5th 2018, 1:55 PM
Molly's Case
Child with Down Syndrome and severe autism who was abandoned at birth was 'not receiving sufficient HSE and Tusla support'
17
15.3k
Jan 15th 2018, 6:01 AM
FOSTERING
'They've two Christmasses. One with us and another with their birth family'
15
16.5k
Dec 22nd 2017, 10:00 PM
Foster Care
Michael Noonan’s handling of the ‘Grace' case will be examined next year
25
6.8k
Nov 16th 2017, 8:37 AM
service gap
€19 million a year spent on private foster care because Tusla is overstretched
1
9.6k
Nov 9th 2017, 6:01 AM
Limerick
'Out of control' teen admitted to hospital as Tusla had nowhere else to place him
17.7k
Aug 29th 2017, 4:26 PM
Foster Care
Report finds 30 foster carers in Mid-West not garda vetted
10
6.5k
Aug 15th 2017, 2:34 PM
State Care
Report into death of teen finds impact of separating her from younger sibling was not understood
27
21.0k
Aug 8th 2017, 10:23 PM
checks
Some foster carers in Kerry, Galway and Roscommon are not being vetted enough
7.4k
Aug 8th 2017, 4:38 PM
grandparents
'When I stopped working, I said I was going to put everything into these kids'
28
35.6k
Jul 30th 2017, 12:05 AM
inadequate
'No Garda vetting, inadequate investigations' - Tusla slammed over standard of Cork foster care services
21
14.3k
Jul 20th 2017, 2:00 PM
Taking Stock
'We need consistency': Long delays by Tusla in dealing with abuse allegations, report says
14
7.3k
Jul 18th 2017, 12:06 PM
vulnerable children
Foster carers 'felt disrespected' by social workers, report finds
7
9.8k
Jul 16th 2017, 7:30 AM
adoption bill
Children can now be adopted by their foster carers after 18 months
21
32.3k
Jul 14th 2017, 1:10 PM
HIQA
'This should be the bare minimum we expect': Fostering service to close down in wake of damning report
2
14.0k
Jul 12th 2017, 5:38 PM
Foster Care
Boy put back into residential care after 'loving' foster parents didn't get supports they begged for
22.3k
Jul 7th 2017, 6:20 AM
Foster Care
'It's not always as straightforward': Tusla chief on removing children at high risk from State care
8
8.2k
Jun 21st 2017, 3:45 PM
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