Department of Children briefings question whether special care system is ‘fit for purpose’
Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman: Judges have routinely criticised serious failings where Tusla , the child and family agency, cannot place children into special care units as they do not have enough staff. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Judges have routinely criticised serious failings where Tusla, the child and family agency, cannot place children into special care units as they do not have enough staff to keep them open. Department officials internally said there might be a need for “a complete overhaul of the provision of special care”, according to briefing notes seen by The Irish Times.
The briefing notes were prepared for Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman in late March as he was preparing to meet the board of Tusla. At that time there were nine children deemed by a court to be in need of a place in a secure unit waiting for a space. The documents were released following a request under the Freedom of Information Act by Aontú TD Peadar Tóibín, who said the records showed the situation in the State care system had become “untenable”.
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