Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Adult Safeguarding: Discussion

9:00 am

Ms Eileen O'Callaghan:

On mandatory reporting, it is important to distinguish between reporting and response. There is consent issues with someone who is over 18 years of age. However, at the moment, with the 8,000 preliminary screenings that went in, we need to concentrate on what is the response from safeguarding teams on the ground as well as the response from other professionals. We all have a role to play in safeguarding. If we move away from who is going to report and what the response will be, with, as Ms Rickard-Clarke mentioned, training and education changing cultural responses, we need to have that wider conversation rather than just signalling on reporting.

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