Family Agency

There is a lack of “consistency” in how Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, operates while its retention of staff remains a significant concern, the g(...)

A young woman, who this week saw her stepmother jailed for a 10-year campaign of physical abuse and psychological torment, has urged anyone suffering (...)

Eight children have arrived into Ireland from Greece since the Government said it would accept 36 unaccompanied minors in 2018 as part of an EU-wide c(...)

A private school where a former rugby coach sexually abused 23 schoolboys in the 1970s and 1980s has apologised “unreservedly to the victims and survi(...)

A woman has secured a protection order against her husband after telling a court that he raped their teenage daughter on the family’s summer holiday l(...)

Covid-19 restrictions resulted in a decrease in the number of referrals for child protection and welfare services, the Child and Family Agency has sai(...)

A man accused of sex abuse on a child while they were both working at a hotel 50 years ago has brought a High Court challenge to findings against him (...)

A man has claimed that Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, unlawfully leaked information to a journalist about a historic child welfare investigation (...)

Almost 40,000 requests for information were made to public bodies last year, while the Information Commissioner received its highest number of appeals(...)

President Michael D Higgins has led tribute to children’s rights advocate Norah Gibbons, who has died. Ms Gibbons, who was a qualified social worker,(...)