Breda O’Brien: Bloomberg ranking a mere snapshot of progress
We must measure our real Covid-19 record without defensiveness or demonisation
Minister defends axing of training allowance for people with disabilities
Saving will be ploughed back into provision of day training places, says Simon Harris
Children’s Ombudsman highlights Tusla’s need for resources
Lack of social workers impacting on how vulnerable children are being protected
What next for the children of the Calais ‘Jungle’?
The camp is gone, but the future for hundreds of child refugees remains utterly bleak
FG MEP rows in behind call to take Calais children
Brian Hayes says Republic should move to accept minors as ‘humanitarian gesture’
Many in nursing homes could live at home if supported - report
Provision of care disorganised, fragmented and underfunded, say social work groups
More social work resources needed in child protection
Almost 1,000 high priority cases not yet assigned social workers at end of 2015, figures show
Fewer male social workers leads to gender bias, says TCD academic
Dr Helen Buckley says lack of men in the field means fathers are often not engaged with
Analysis: Children at risk as pressure grows on frontline social work services
Reports over safety and welfare of children have grown by 98% since 2007
No social workers for 550 children
Hundreds of children in residential or foster care have no allocated social worker
48% of children in HSE South care on voluntary basis
Study finds girls more likely than boys to enter care on foot of court orders
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