Teenage sex offenders a growing challenge for social workers
In world of online porn, more than 25% of sex offenders found by Garda are teenagers
Half of Irish women will be sexually harassed, report finds
Tusla survey also says that one-quarter of women will experience physical violence
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
Child born to teen in care to stay in care until mother is 21
Judge not convinced order sought by Child and Family Agency Tusla was ‘proportionate’
Department planning ‘extensive reform’ of guardian scheme
Overhaul will include payments to guardians as well as their status, roles and responsibilities
Tusla chief: Court-appointed guardian earnings ‘outrageous’,
Head of child and family agency Gordon Jeyes criticial of €16.5m spend on ‘guardians’
Tusla voices concern over Louth-Meath child protection services
Agency head Gordon Jeyes: anxious about structure, relationships and practice
Scrutiny in Dublin child-care cases ‘suffocating’ – Tusla
Child-protection chief Gordon Jeyes critical of courts and prescriptive nature of orders
No link found between murdered man and abandoned infant
Andrew Guerrine: Killers may have known there was no CCTV in Steelstown Lane
Tusla says it may require €25m extra in 2014
Legal costs and high demand for private residential and foster care services cited
Behind the News: Eileen Finnegan, psychotherapist
Many young sex offenders began by downloading internet images of children being abused, according to One in Four, whose treatment services now extend to abusers
Court dispenses with need for parental permission to immunise child in care
Judge says immunisation ‘in child’s best interests’
Teenagers taken into care after village burnt by ‘Islamic sect’
Family Court judge also concerned for safety of girl who went missing six times last month while in care of the State
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