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Sat 09 Sep 2010Children in care 'cannot be locked up'
STATE CHILD care providers cannot lock children up 24 hours a day to ensure they do not go missing, the Minister for Children told a symposium on child well-being yesterday.
Reacting to allegations that allowing children in the care of the HSE to go missing was “a dereliction of duty”, Minister Barry Andrews said care providers could not lock up children.
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