No cause of death: Where next for the Daniel Aruebose investigation?
In the News podcast: Skeletal remains of missing child were discovered buried in Donabate
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More than one in five pupils missed over 20 days of last school year, data show
Figures still above pre-pandemic levels despite overall reduction in chronic absenteeism
Irish State has ‘serious questions to answer’ after Daniel Aruebose’s death, Ombudsman says
State has ‘serious questions to answer’ in relation to Daniel Aruebose and Kyran Durnin cases, says Dr Niall Muldoon
Social workers ‘afraid’ to share information about children due to GDPR concerns
Better communication needed between agencies if there are concerns about a child’s welfare, expert says
Daniel Aruebose: What do we know about his short life, and what happens next?
‘There was very little of him left,’ says Garda source on remains of three-year-old found in Dublin field
Daniel Aruebose case timeline: What we know so far, from early family life to present day
Boy, whose family had previously engaged with Tusla, last seen four years ago but alarm was only raised last month
Government accused of acting as if all is ‘rosy’ while consumers are ‘hammered’ by soaring prices
Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty cited rents, student fees and property prices as problems faced by workers
Daniel Aruebose ‘was failed in life, let’s not fail him in death’, Dáil told
Tánaiste says case of missing boy ‘horrific and tragic’ while Taoiseach warns against a ‘rush to judgment’ in case of boy missing for years
Principal calls for checks on school attendance for children in emergency accommodation
Checks on accommodation centres raised in context of child going missing in Donabate, Co Dublin
Tusla funding boost should be top budget priority, say 150 children’s organisations
Children’s Rights Alliance says child protection and welfare services must be prioritised
Mother says CCTV footage shows Dublin creche worker dragging daughter ‘like a rag doll’
Dublin creche ‘immediately’ dismissed staff member and contacted gardaí
CCTV in creches: do safeguarding benefits outweigh privacy concerns?
Parents have mixed feelings about their children being filmed
Missing Dublin boy: NRP chair calls on Children’s Ombudsman to retract ‘baffling’ comments
Helen Buckley’s call comes as National Review Panel prepares to review case of missing Dublin boy
Deep excavation in search for boy assumed dead as three diggers used by gardaí
Gardaí believe boy aged 3-years when he died around 2021, accidental death and foul play both being investigated
Dublin creche chain worker dismissed after allegedly ‘mistreating’ children
Gardaí and Tusla investigating incident after staff member dismissed by company ‘with immediate effect’
Search for missing boy intensifies at north Dublin site
Search of Donabate site entering second week after claims boy buried there four years ago
Woman who alleges ex-boyfriend threatened her life granted protection order
In separate case, mother is granted temporary order banning adult son from her home
Gardaí to ask Brazil for help in speaking to father of missing child
Investigators double size of search area in north Dublin for remains of boy presumed dead
How can a child just disappear without the State even noticing?
Search for remains Co Dublin boy – the second child to vanish in a year – raises concerns about welfare of vulnerable children during Covid pandemic
Gardaí believe remains of missing boy assumed dead are buried on lands in north Co Dublin
No response from cadaver dog brought on to search site
Conflicting witness statements emerge concerning missing boy, presumed dead
Account provided to investigators last week states child killed at age of three by someone known to him
Boy missing, presumed dead, spent time in care before being returned to family
Gardaí suspect child died aged three and remains were disposed of to conceal death
Chronic absenteeism from school has worsened since Covid and must be tackled
Student attendance has deteriorated since Covid, with more than 30% of students in Deis second-level schools now defined as ‘chronic absentees’
Suspected Irish case of human trafficking for forced organ removal highlighted in report
Monitoring report identifies 162 cases of human trafficking between 2022 and 2024
‘Burnout’ of Tusla staff delayed assessments of child abuse and neglect in Donegal
Internal Tusla review criticises time taken to assess risk posed by alleged child abuser
Tusla debated turning back to previously blacklisted care home providers
Internal documents show pushback to idea children be accommodated by care firms who supplied fake Garda vetting
Department cuts firm’s Ukraine accommodation contract over Garda vetting controversy
State bodies under pressure over contracts awarded to group found supplying falsified vetting checks
Private firm caring for vulnerable children supplied fake Garda vetting clearances
Businessman behind the group has gone on to win a further multimillion euro State contract
Investigating historic schools abuse a ‘major pull’ on Garda resources, authority warns
Fewer offences of possession of child sexual abuse material due to resource issues at online child exploitation unit
Tusla expects to be €68m over budget this year as demand for services rises
Child and family agency says it is trying to cut costs but need for services in residential care, fostering and caring for separated children seeking asylum has increased
Thousands of Tusla data breaches since 2019 raise child protection concerns
Breaches have given rise to child-protection concerns, including alleged abusers gaining information
Person pretending to be Tusla worker turned up at children’s residential unit on night shift
Incident was one of series of data breaches including ‘lost’ files being found at ex-staff member’s home after 26 years
Staff at special care centres miss thousands of days due to violence and sickness
Number of employees leaving ‘last-resort’ service for at-risk children was greater than those joining at one point last year
Nineteen children and young people connected to care system died last year
None were in care, but two were in aftercare and others were known to social work services
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