Grooming gangs
‘Under the radar’
Medication made her situation worse.
Tusla “dreadfully sorry.”
4% of Ireland’s children
Tusla social workers
An Irish Senator has said she is “horrified” at the number of children and youths committing suicide while in State care. The comments were made in the Seanad yesterday by Senator Sharon Keogan during a discussion about the mother and baby homes redress scheme. “Yesterday, €800 million was allocated to the mother and baby homes […]
A judge has slammed the child protection agency TULSA for what he described as using the “might of the state” to continue a “habit of splitting siblings, heaping one trauma on top of another” Judge Desmond Zaidan. said that it was the “First Commandment” not to split up siblings and said he laid “all the […]
The fifteen year old who was gang-raped by a bunch of older men in a Dublin hotel is, the Irish Times and Irish Independent told us yesterday, “troubled”: A 15-YEAR-OLD girl deemed at high risk of sexual exploitation was reported to have been “coked out of it” while spending the night at a Dublin city […]
An amazing story, this, by the Irish Times’ Jack Power, that got somewhat overlooked in the past few days: “Tusla, the State child and family agency, has been returning thousands of child welfare reports made to it by post back to senders with instructions they be resubmitted via an online portal. Concerns have been raised […]
RTE withheld information from Tusla, the agency responsible for child protection within the state, that could potentially have helped the agency intervene with rogue Creche providers earlier, Gript can report. At least two months went by when RTE had knowledge of active fire hazards and threats to the safety of the children in the ‘care’ […]