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The Health Information and Standards Directorate in Ireland's HIQA has launched a public consultation on Draft National Standards for Children’s Residential Centres. This consultation aims to gather the views of children living in residential care, their families and people involved in caring for children in residential care on the draft national standards. This feedback will be considered and will inform the development of the final National Standards.
The public consultation will run until 5pm on Thursday 02 November 2017.
Purpose and scope of the…
WHAT: Guidelines for identifying and reporting child abuse, and improving professional practice in both statutory and voluntary agencies providing services to children and families. Outlines a set of sound principles and good practices, emphasizing inter-agency cooperation for improving the response to and prevention of child abuse.
WHO: All those involved in child protection e.g. Policy makers, social and community workers, health professionals, teachers, and caregivers.
WHERE: Global relevance.…
The Report of the Working Group on Foster Care, ‘Foster Care: A Child-Centred Partnership’ highlighted concerns about the quality of foster care services provided in Ireland. Following its publication, a committee was established to develop National Standards on Practices and Procedures on Foster Care. These Standards are based on the relevant legislation, regulation and guidance and best practice derived from evidence based research and professional experience from home and abroad. Additionally, the development of this document was influenced by the inspection experience of residential child…
Newstalk reports Tusla’s Dublin South Central foster care service failed to meet all HIQA standards.
According to Ireland's Child and Family Agency, Tusla, ten Irish children remained in care placements overseas as of late December 2015. All ten of the children were placed in facilities in Britain.
Tusla has been working to reduce its out-of-state placements during 2015. While the proportion of Irish children in care who are placed overseas is small, the costs of these overseas placements is considerable. The typical cost for maintaining such an overseas placement is around €6,000 per week. Tusla noted that in a small number of cases, a child…