Report of Child Law Project ‘sounds the alarm’ says special rapporteur on child protection
Crisis in care: The most recent report from the Child Law Project warns that a lack of suitable 'risks collapsing the care system'. Photograph: iStock
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The “serious gaps” in the State’s response to children include an “acute shortage” of foster and residential care placements; a “dismal response” by the HSE to meeting the disability, mental health and addiction needs of children in care; and “weak” inter-agency co-operation. The report discloses that almost one-third of parents in child care cases suffered from a disability, of whom two-thirds had mental health problems and most of the remainder had a cognitive disability.
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