Fred Mcbride

It is time Tusla and middle Ireland had a discussion about what can “reasonably be expected” from Tusla, the child and family agency’s new chief execu(...)

Serious concerns were raised around the “viability” of continuing to place vulnerable children in private residential centres by the then chief execut(...)

The head of the Child and Family Agency, Tusla, Fred McBride, is to step down next month, it has been announced. The agency’s board told staff on Th(...)

The number of emergency rooms that had to be booked for homeless families who by late evening have nowhere to sleep has almost doubled since the start(...)

Earlier this month Tusla’s chief executive, Fred McBride, wrote to his 1,500 social workers warning of a coming “storm” – a report from the Health Inf(...)

State child protection agency Tusla spent two years trying to wrestle control from a “too bureaucratic” Health Service Executive so it can hire its ow(...)

Systems failures within the State’s child protection agency is leading to the mishandling of child sex abuse allegations and leaving vulnerable childr(...)

Tusla does not provide a consistent service to vulnerable children and does not always learn from its mistakes, its chief executive has admitted. How(...)

The public don’t fully understand the work that Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, do and can have an “unrealistic” view of what is achievable. Chi(...)

Gardaí and social workers should be placed in specialist child protection units and gaps in provision of out-of-hours emergency services should be rem(...)