HIQA identified 10 Tusla service areas across the country where at least 25 per cent of children had not been allocated a social worker in child protection and welfare and/or foster care services.

New apprenticeship model for social workers via UCC masters should see an improvement in numbers and diversity entering the ...

Risks to individual children had to be escalated to Tusla area managers during inspections of its child protection and welfare services by the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa), the ...

You can check out at any time. More info Tusla, the Child and Family Protection Agency, was last night branded a deadly place for children. It came from Aontu leader Peadar Toibin, who fumed ...

Agency’s current boss Kate Duggan knew about the issue in 2022, but took no action Senior Tusla officials, including current chief executive Kate Duggan (right), knew about the issue in 2022 ...

In a judgment issued this week, Judge Conor Fottrell said Tusla had failed to have regard to the best interests of the children who were left without allocated social workers. Judge Fottrell ...

Ombudsman for Children Niall Muldoon said the huge increase in spend on treatment abroad for children in care was a reflection of the crisis Tusla was facing in this area. "Tusla is failing to ...

Sexual exploitation of vulnerable children in the care system has in recent years become a significant concern for Tusla, the child and family agency, with a dedicated Garda operation set up to ...

The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) have published an inspection report on the foster care service provided by the Child and Family Agency’s (Tusla’s) Separated Children ...

A High Court judge has fixed an expedited hearing date for a father’s “exceptionally urgent” challenge to Tusla’s decision not to place his teenage son in secure State care after finding ...