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"One-third of foster carers have said that a lack of structure for their foster children during the Covid-19 pandemic has been a challenge, according to a new survey," says this article from the Irish Times. "The survey of 200 foster carers carried out by the Irish Foster Care Association in January also found that one-quarter of respondents said that facilitating family visits was 'challenging' during the pandemic."
"The pandemic has had an adverse impact on all children. That has been more severe for those with special needs but an almost forgotten group of especially vulnerable children are those who experience abuse and neglect," says this Irish Times in this editorial. "The latest volume of reports from the Child Care Law Reporting Project contains a number of reports detailing the impact of the pandemic on them."
This article describes some of the findings from a new report on childcare law matters in Ireland, which has revealed many of the impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on families of children in state care. The report discusses "cases where the type of comfort vulnerable children might have got before from visiting family members was no longer available to them."
"The Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting restrictions have had a particularly heavy impact on vulnerable and marginalised children, none more so than those who require the protection of the State through the child care courts," says the Irish Times in this opinion piece. The article describes the impact of the crisis on vulnerable children and their families, including the impact on face-to-face contact between children in care and their parents, the strain on parents already struggling with addiction or mental health issues, and the delivery of services for families.
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"Concerns have been raised about how children in the Irish care system are coping during the coronavirus pandemic," says this article from the Irish Examiner. In-person services from social workers have been scaled back in light of the crisis, as have in-person parental visits, according to the article. There have also been "difficulties monitoring children and a withdrawal of traditional supports such as schools and sports clubs." The article describes some of the ways that social workers and child protection services are responding to, and trying to mitigate, these challenges.
"Almost all visits to children in residential care and detention facilities have been suspended as a result of the coronavirus crisis, including visits by most family members," says this article from the Irish Times. The article describes the impacts on children in residential care, including Special Care Centres, secure facilities which provide intensive treatment and care to particularly troublesome or violent children for up to three months.
"The coronavirus crisis is compounding the challenges for vulnerable and at-risk young people in special care, their families and care staff dealing with them, the High Court has heard," says this article from the Irish Times. According to the article, a judge "was told of the effects on the young people and their families of the crisis, including restrictions on face to face visits with families and on outings from care placements."
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