# foster-care - Wednesday 22 December, 2021
# Next Of Kin
# Next Of Kin
Absence of clear oversight and supports leave children and caring relatives in precarious position.
# foster-care - Saturday 24 April, 2021
# History Repeating Itself
# History Repeating Itself
Ireland is repeating the mistakes of mother and baby homes, social workers have warned.
# foster-care - Sunday 31 January, 2021
# Children's Rights
# Children's Rights
Jamie Canavan is researching the stories of children who were forced into ‘boarding out’, a term given to fostering in the early to mid last century.
# foster-care - Monday 18 January, 2021
# Foster Care
# Foster Care
Social workers, parents, foster carers and children have experienced additional stress in the last six months.
# foster-care - Thursday 19 December, 2019
# Apology
# Apology
He was convicted by a jury and sentenced to 12 years in prison last month.
# Foster Care
# Foster Care
Ciara said she has received messages from other victims who are afraid to talk about their abuse.
# foster-care - Thursday 21 November, 2019
# Epic
# Epic
Children as young as five years old required the support of advocates last year.
# foster-care - Wednesday 13 November, 2019
# Foster Care
# Foster Care
The conviction followed a trial at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin last July.
# foster-care - Saturday 2 November, 2019
# Tusla
# Tusla
The former Labour Party leader was addressing foster carers at a conference this morning.
# foster-care - Thursday 31 October, 2019
# Exposed
# Exposed
Some of the 4,500 foster carers in Ireland said the lack of cover had left them exposed
# foster-care - Thursday 3 October, 2019
At the time of the inspection, 22% of children did not have an allocated social worker.
# foster-care - Thursday 23 May, 2019
# Systemic Failures
# Systemic Failures
The children involved were left with a foster family for several years despite abuse claims.
# foster-care - Monday 8 April, 2019
# Ombudsman
# Ombudsman
The collaboration between the HSE and Tusla is still of concern, the ombudsman said.
# foster-care - Tuesday 5 March, 2019
# Changing Futures
# Changing Futures
The website has been designed by young people with lived experience of the care system.
# foster-care - Monday 21 January, 2019
# Children In Care
# Children In Care
In another case the court heard a pre-school age child may have been sexually abused while in foster care.
# foster-care - Tuesday 25 September, 2018
# Courts
# Courts
The woman had been caring for the boy from a few months after his birth until April of this year.
# foster-care - Monday 17 September, 2018
# Nowhere To Go
# Nowhere To Go
“His experience in care is augmenting his experience of harm that brought him into care,” the judge said.
# foster-care - Wednesday 20 June, 2018
# Ombudsman
# Ombudsman
The woman’s allowances were reduced significantly when her two children turned 18, despite them both having intellectual disabilities.
# foster-care - Saturday 14 April, 2018
# Late Late Show
# Late Late Show
The actor’s stock is growing in Hollywood, and he told Tubridy last night how his experiences growing up shaped him.
# foster-care - Thursday 5 April, 2018
# HIQA
# HIQA
The Health Information and Quality Authority released three inspection reports of foster care services in Ireland.
# foster-care - Monday 15 January, 2018
# Molly's Case
# Molly's Case
Tusla has committed to undertaking a “systemic review” of supports.
# foster-care - Friday 22 December, 2017
# FOSTERING
# FOSTERING
Foster carers describe the extra lengths they go to make sure that Christmas is a good time for the children in their care.
# foster-care - Thursday 16 November, 2017
# Foster Care
# Foster Care
‘Grace’ was left in an abusive foster home in the southeast of the country for 20 years.
# foster-care - Thursday 9 November, 2017
# Service Gap
# Service Gap
Oireachtas Children’s Committee will today recommend resources be used to recruit more social workers for public service.
# foster-care - Tuesday 29 August, 2017
# Limerick
# Limerick
The boy damaged his family home during a fight with his mother over unwashed clothing.
# foster-care - Tuesday 15 August, 2017
# Foster Care
# Foster Care
The Hiqa report also found a delay in reporting allegations of abuse to the gardaí.
# foster-care - Tuesday 8 August, 2017
# State Care
# State Care
‘Clare’ was in foster care when she took her own life.
# Checks
# Checks
Two new Hiqa reports have identified a number of shortcomings.
# foster-care - Sunday 30 July, 2017
# Grandparents
# Grandparents
A woman who cares for her two grandchildren tells us how she’s been thwarted at every turn to seek greater supports from the State.
# foster-care - Thursday 20 July, 2017
# Inadequate
# Inadequate
An inspection by health authority Hiqa has found that the Cork area shows ‘major non-compliance’ with accepted standards of foster care.
# foster-care - Tuesday 18 July, 2017
# Taking Stock
# Taking Stock
The Ombudsman was critical of Tusla’s procedures for dealing with abuse allegations.
# foster-care - Sunday 16 July, 2017
# Vulnerable Children
# Vulnerable Children
In all, 300 social workers and foster carers responded to a joint consultation from Tusla and the Irish Foster Care Association.
# foster-care - Friday 14 July, 2017
# Adoption Bill
# Adoption Bill
The Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016 has passed its final stages in Dáil Éireann.
# foster-care - Wednesday 12 July, 2017
# HIQA
# HIQA
Fresh Start Foster Care Service said it was ceasing operations due to “ongoing difficulties in relation to retention and recruitment of staff”.
# foster-care - Friday 7 July, 2017
# Foster Care
# Foster Care
The child was doing well in school and had joined the local football club but needed extra psychological supports which the family did not receive.
# foster-care - Wednesday 21 June, 2017
# Foster Care
# Foster Care
Tusla chief executive Fred McBride was speaking at the Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs this morning.
# foster-care - Saturday 10 June, 2017
# Children In Care
# Children In Care
Guardians ad litem are appointed by the courts to give children a voice, but that task is by no means an easy one.
# foster-care - Saturday 27 May, 2017
# Foster Care
# Foster Care
A new report from NUI Galway highlights the experiences of children in foster care in Ireland.
# foster-care - Sunday 21 May, 2017
# Vulnerable Children
# Vulnerable Children
The State spends over €100 million on foster care each year but Tusla’s role in providing this care is under sharp scrutiny.
# foster-care - Thursday 20 April, 2017
# Family Court
# Family Court
The family court heard that the family had living arrangements “unsuitable for a young child”.
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