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Saturday 28 November 2020
The children will be received into the care of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency.
A proposal to merge the Department of Children with the Department of Education is being considered.
These services will first be made available to children of essential workers and those experiencing poverty or welfare issues.
The government announced that a childcare scheme for healthcare workers had to be scrapped.
The scheme has been scrapped after just six providers had applied to take part.
45 hours a week of childcare in the home will be provided to certain workers from 18 May.
Trade union Fórsa has requested more information on what the plan entails.
Wages of thousands of employees working in the childcare sector will be topped up to a maximum of €586 a week.
The government is to pay a proportion of childcare staff costs during the closure period.
An unpublished report has found that mixed-race children were routinely withheld for adoption and some children’s skin colour was listed as a “defect”.
Early drafts of a letter that caused a row between the agency and Scouting Ireland contained stronger criticism of the organisation than the final version.
Minister Zappone said she was “personally deeply disappointed” that a consensus could not be reached on the issue.
The average cost of full-time childcare in Ireland is €184 per week.
The Taoiseach says the Data Commissioner has declined to meet with Minister Doherty.
Dr Geoffrey Shannon’s Report on the Collection of Tuam Survivors’ DNA has been published today.
The new plan hopes to see thousands of childminders registered with Tusla.
The figure was revealed at an Oireachtas committee hearing yesterday morning.
Children were filmed being roughly handled in the footage recorded by RTÉ Investigates, and concerns were raised about fire safety and other issues.
Should it be compulsory for young people to volunteer for a year? There are pros and cons.
The assembly will begin its work in October this year.
Funding will be made available to childcare centres, crèches and other childcare facilities.
Minister Katherine Zappone said it comes on the back of ‘decades of neglect’ in the area.
Bon Secours Sisters say a €2.5 million donation towards excavation and memorial will be their only contribution to the state.
The total amount of funding for 2019 has increased to €23.8 million.
The commission said the affidavit from the congregation that ran the mother and baby home was “speculative, inaccurate and misleading”.
But the forum of former residents of these institutions that made recommendations are frustrated the government won’t publish its full report.
That’s according to a confidential letter to a government minister.
The report has been submitted to Minister for Children Katherine Zappone.
Lisa Smith is reportedly being detained by the US armed forces based in northern Syria.
Child safety expert Ian Elliott said that the organisation is “as safe as it can be and getting safer” – Tusla disagrees.
Tusla says an ‘immediate review’ of the current standards around the supervision of children should be undertaken.
The first excavations at the site of the former Tuam mother and baby home was expected to start in the latter half of 2019.
Pressure has been mounting on government all week about who knew what when about the hospital costs.
The Commission of Investigation will not be issuing its final report this year.
The HSE told Tusla it hadn’t received any direction on this, despite the Department of Children believing it to be the case.
Arc Adoption was licenced to facilitate intercountry adoptions from 2011-2014.
Minister Katherine Zappone said it’s likely the numbers could increase again.
71 alleged abusers and 108 alleged victims were identified by the organisation last week following a historic review.
The man was arrested this morning in Co Cork by Gardaí and released this evening.
THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED last night that Ireland will return to Level 3 restrictions (with some variations) for the month of December.
It follows six weeks of Level 5 restrictions, and the new guidelines will allow people to be a bit more social and for businesses to open ahead of Christmas, offering a sense of relief to many after a tough year.
But although Covid-19 cases have reduced in recent weeks, there are worries that going back to Level 3 now will inevitably lead to a rise in cases again and that we’ll face tighter restrictions again in the new year.
So today, we want to know: Do you agree with the Government’s decision to reduce Ireland’s Covid-19 restrictions to Level 3?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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