By Ciara Phelan Political Correspondent Eilidh MacNab, Dublin North East Regional Chief Officer said she “fully acknowledged” that there were areas of practice that were not to the high standards expected. A child in Tusla’s foster care service was not visited by a social worker for over three years, a damning report has revealed. An
Cost of hotel rooms and other properties up to €1 million per child in some cases The State child and family agency has been spending more than €500,000 a week housing children in hotel rooms, rented properties or other emergency placements, figures show. Emergency placements are used where a child is taken into State care
Commenting on the study, Clare Murphy, Director of Services and Integration (Interim), Tusla said: “Tusla is acutely aware of and remains concerned about the increased risk of child sexual exploitation of vulnerable children and young people, whether relating to children and young people in our care or those in the wider community. We’ve just received
“Apps are an affordable, accessible and popular technology which provide an easy avenue to consumers and developers. It is easy to develop a rudimentary app and then build something more sophisticated down the line.” Dr Peter Bloomfield and Cristina Ruiz de Villa, report authors The government should launch a learning disability technology initiative, combined with
“CityMaaS spend a long time doing research and we always involve the end users in our development process, because we have to remember that our understanding of a disability is very different to that of the person actually experiencing it.” Luis Canto E Castro, partnership manager, CityMaaS A recent report by Future Care Capital into learning disability
“Scandalously low fee rates for homecare are paid by some public organisations, particularly in areas of highest deprivation, which do not enable compliance with employment or care regulations, never mind allow fair reward for the skills and experience of careworkers.”Dr Jane Townson, CEO of the Homecare Association Many councils are not paying companies that provide