Agency has increasingly had to rely on hotel rooms and B&Bs to house vulnerable young people
Tusla has increasingly had to house children in care in these emergency placements, often due to a shortage of space in appropriate residential care homes, or due to the young person having incredibly complex needs.
The report also said more than a quarter of open cases reported to Tusla were waiting for a social worker to be assigned to the child at the end of last year.At the end of the year about 22,000 cases were open, but 28 per cent of those cases had yet to be allocated a designated social worker. In total there were 5,755 children in care, with around nine out of ten of those living in foster care.The agency’s annual financial accounts detailed that its spending on legal settlements increased from €12,000 in 2021, to €70,000 last year.
Tusla’s spending on pay for agency workers increased from about €12 million to €16 million last year, the accounts show.
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