Retired District Court judge intervenes in ‘unprecedented crisis’ in services for children most at risk
He said “systemic failures” across Tusla, the Garda, the Department of Education, the HSE and the Prison Service were undoing, undermining and frustrating the best efforts of frontline social workers to comply with regulations and protocols.His letter, published on Monday by the Child Law Project as one of 67 reports on care cases before the courts, expresses “utmost concern for the immediate predicament and welfare of children... in the care of the State”.
“Instead of providing safe, nurturing and consistent care to children who are placed in State care, we are placing more and more of these children in emergency, unregulated accommodation [and] have a care system which has become a predominantly private, for profit, industry.” An “independent review of the care system is urgently required”.
“We can’t just ask ourselves, how do we build a bigger system to deal with children in crisis? We have to ask ourselves, how do we reduce the number of children in crisis,” he said. “We have been struggling to match that with the skilled staff who have the skills and qualifications to look after children who need State care.”A judge in a provincial town directed Tusla to “immediately” identify an approved and regulated placement for three siblings, whose separate placements were ending imminently. The children’s two other siblings, also in separate placements, were doing well.
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