Grainia Long

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John Church: previously of Age Action and Arthritis Ireland
ISPCC appoints John Church as new chief executive

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC) has appointed John Church as chief executive of the charity. Grainia Long left th(...)

Grainia Long, chief executive, ISPCC at the launch of the ISPCC annual report in Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Times
IPSCC to expand digital service to reflect children’s use of technology

The number of children using the internet and text messages to access Childline’s services increased by a third last year. Childline said it answere(...)

Children’s groups have argued to maintain the age of digital consent at 13. File photograph: Getty Images
Age of digital consent to remain at 13-years-old

Proposals to raise the digital age of consent from 13 to 16 years of age were rejected by an Oireachtas committee on Wednesday. The digital age of co(...)

Minister for Communications, Denis Naughten: ‘The people who want to exploit children will use every loophole possible.’ Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Times
Biggest threat to online child safety comes from new apps – Denis Naughten

The Minister for Communications Denis Naughten has suggested the “big players” in the technology industry are not the problem when it comes to online (...)

Don’t ask children what they would do if they got requests from a stranger online but say “if your friend came to you and said this happened, what would you tell them?”
A ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ horror tale for the internet age

The little girl had bought the phone with her Holy Communion money to watch cartoons, dancing and singing online. It was a very innocent and very mode(...)

Chief executive of Barnardos Fergus Finlay: Too many children were “automatically granted, on the day of their birth, the right to stand in queues for services that never came”. Photograph: Dave Meehan
Child homelessness in Ireland worst in Europe, forum hears

Ireland’s rate of child homelessness, which has risen by 287 per cent in three years, is unmatched anywhere in Europe, the Irish Society for the Preve(...)

Tánaiste and Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald has signed aspects of the new Sexual Offences Bill into law. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Minister for Justice signs new laws on sexual offences

New laws criminalising the purchase of sex and introducing new offences relating to the sexual exploitation of children will take effect from Monday. (...)

Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, insisted the “Grace” case “does not reflect current foster care placements” which are “highly regulated”. File photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Tusla carrying out review of staff identified in ‘Grace’ case reports

Tusla, the State agency responsible for foster care, has said staff members identified in two reports into alleged sexual and physical abuse suffered (...)

Grainia Long: “I have long suspected that our a child protection system has one hand tied behind its back.”
By not fully funding Tusla, the State fails to protect children

Some time ago, a child with a broken arm called to an ISPCC office on a Friday evening. This particular office is not a drop-in centre, but our profes(...)

According to a recent Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children report, children as young as five are being allowed unlimited unsupervised access to the internet – with many viewing violent or pornographic material
Internet provides ‘child-protection issue of our time’

If the internet was an actual place there isn’t a parent in the world who would let their children near it. It is dangerous and disturbing and flooded(...)

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