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It is starting to be recognised that young people with mental health and/or intellectual disabilities making the transition to adulthood from out-of-home care require focused attention to understand their needs and service requirements. Within the UK jurisdiction of Northern Ireland (NI), young people with mental health and/or intellectual disabilities are over-represented in the population of care leavers and yet very little is known about their specific needs. The overall aim of the study reported here was to examine the profile of care leavers with mental health and/or intellectual…
This paper describes Ireland’s successful implementation of a policy of de-institutionalization of out-of-home care for children. The paper outlines the de-institutionalization process in Ireland and offers possible lessons it can offer to the international community. The paper provides a brief historical context, presents a description of Ireland’s move from institutional-based care to family care, explains how the current system operates, and highlights some of the remaining challenges and issues in the child welfare system. The paper also features some of the critical policy developments…
This article is part of a special edition of the journal Psychosocial Intervention (Volume 22 No.03 December 2013) focused on the state of child protection in a wide variety of countries with special attention to out-of-home care placements, principally family foster care and residential care, tough several aspects related to adoption were included as well.
This fascinating paper provides a brief overview of the looked after system in the UK and the equivalent care system in Ireland…
Tens of thousands of Irish children were sexually, physically and emotionally abused by nuns, priests and others over 60 years in a network of church-run residential schools meant to care for the poor, the vulnerable and the unwanted. The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse released their 2,600-page report in May 2009 which paints a picture of institutions characterized by privation and cruelty that could be both casual and choreographed.
The report, by a state-appointed commission, exposes for the first time the scope of the problem in Ireland, as well as how the government and…
Improvements to Ireland's Child and Family Agency Tusla’s foster care system - including proper checks, increased social workers and staff, and out-of-hours telephone and emergency support - will be implemented later this year.
Boy put back into residential care after 'loving' foster parents didn't get supports they begged for
A nine-year-old boy was returned to residential care after his foster family did not receive the additional psychological supports requested, revealing strain on social workers and lack of support for foster carers and children in care.
Ireland child protection services takes on a 'paradigm shift' to working with children and families, predicting fewer children in the care system, empowered parents, and safer children.
Four-year inquiry found widespread abuse in Northern Ireland child care homes.
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…
This conference, hosted by Tearfund Ireland, will explore the topic of Care Reform and why volunteering in orphanages is changing. This conference will take place on Zoom and will be fully accessible, with live captioning and International Sign Language interpretation. It will bring together expert practitioners, care leavers - individuals who have grown up in orphanages in the Global South and are now calling for reform, disability experts and advocacy experts in the Global South.