Family Agency Tusla
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Tusla policy ‘endangering’ victims of child sex abuse, say therapists
- Crime & Law
- July 13, 2020, 02:00
Therapy services are no longer asking child sex abuse victims to disclose their abusers’ names due to a Tusla policy mandating that alleged abusers mu(...)

Road to citizenship for non-Irish children ‘long, complex and expensive’, says report
- Social Affairs
- June 5, 2020, 21:53
Children who come to Ireland seeking asylum, unaccompanied minors and stateless children born here face a “long, complex and expensive” road to citize(...)

Children discharged from Temple Street into homelessness number 842
- Oireachtas
- January 22, 2019, 17:32
The Ombudsman for Children has said he was “shocked, but unfortunately not surprised” by figures showing that almost 850 children treated in a Dublin (...)

Budget 2018: Free pre-school plan to expand to two years
- Social Affairs
- October 10, 2017, 14:25
Minister for Children Katherine Zappone said she was “confident” the early childhood sector would be able to provide enough child places to allow a fu(...)

Plan to move child from ‘loving and caring’ foster home queried
- Oireachtas
- June 23, 2017, 01:00
A nine-year-old child is to be removed from his “loving and caring” foster family and put into residential care, the Dáil has heard. Fianna Fáil TD F(...)

Tusla urged to deal with delays in historical sex abuse cases
- Oireachtas
- May 13, 2017, 18:02
More than 350 adults who were allegedly sexually abused as children have this year made retrospective disclosures to Child and Family Agency Tusla. (...)

Fitzgerald and Zappone arrive at Greece’s migrant camps
- Social Affairs
- December 11, 2016, 20:23
Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald and Minister for Children Katherine Zappone began a three-day official visit to Greece on Sunday to see at first hand the (...)

Tusla: Child benefit link to school attendance ‘not an effective tool’
- Oireachtas
- June 9, 2016, 21:16
Child and Family Agency Tusla has advised that linking child benefit to school attendance is not an effective policy, the Dáil has been told. Ministe(...)

Forced marriage to be made illegal under new strategy
- Crime & Law
- January 20, 2016, 18:50
Ireland will introduce a specific offence of forced marriage as part of the Government’s new strategy for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence,(...)

Abandoned baby’s DNA to be sampled
- Irish News
- May 12, 2015, 21:38
The State has secured permission to take a DNA profile from the baby girl found abandoned on the outskirts of Dublin last week.The sample would be use(...)