The Irish State is legally vulnerable because of the “obvious gap” between the rights of children on paper and the protection of those rights in practice, Ireland’s special rapporteur on child ...

Protracted child-protection cases, involving disagreements between State agencies as well as difficulties securing services for troubled teenagers, are among cases published on Monday by specialised ...

Helping social workers think under pressure is key in making a success of the LCPP role, say Amy Eyers and Anna Harvey ...

These four IRC sector-specific case studies (health, education, child protection and social protection) show how diverse partnerships in programme delivery can strengthen government systems, improve ...

A report into child protection and welfare services provided by Tusla in the Louth-Meath area has found there were delays in responding to the needs of children and families and that measures to ...

Statutory guidance revised to allow social workers to carry out child protection enquiries and chair case conferences ...

The head of the HSE has said authorities should be given space to investigate the case of a boy missing from north Dublin who is feared dead. Bernard Gloster, who was in charge of the child and family ...