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Fri 05 May 2009Over 900 children in HSE care have no social worker
MORE THAN 900 children in the care of the Health Service Executive do not have an allocated social worker, new figures show.
While there are 5,529 children in care, just 4,623 or 83.6 per cent of them have an allocated social worker. The data, which reflects the position at the end of March, was provided to a recent meeting of the HSE board.
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