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Fri 07 Jul 2010HSE move to cut childcare cases not signed off on, says Barnardos chief
A PROTOCOL between the HSE and the main agency supplying guardians ad litem – representatives for the interests of children in care – was drawn up but never signed off on, according to the child welfare body Barnardos.
Barnardos chief executive Fergus Finlay was responding to an Irish Timesreport that the HSE had spent €2.4 million on legal fees in childcare cases in the Dublin region in the past three years. “I’m shocked by the amount, but not surprised,” he said.
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