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Mon 06 Jun 2010More social workers will not keep children safe
OPINION:Having an overloaded child protection system would be very dangerous for children at high risk, writes HELEN BUCKLEY
IN RESPONSE to recently exposed weaknesses in the State child protection services, children’s advocates have called for an increase in the number of social workers employed by the Health Service Executive (HSE. Yet, however worthy this aspiration may appear, it is based on two somewhat dubious premises – that the principal deficit in the system is a shortage of social workers, and that HSE social workers are best placed to address the problem of child abuse.
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