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Wed 03 Mar 2010Many children in foster care have no social worker
ALMOST HALF the children in foster care in Dublin North West and one-third in Dublin North Central have not been allocated a social worker by the Health Service Executive (HSE), according to a State-appointed childcare watchdog.
The Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) has also identified serious problems related to the management of files on foster children, which have been stored in unlocked rooms and often contain incorrect names and dates of birth of children.
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