Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 January 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Annual Report of Ombudsman for Children 2016: Discussion

1:30 pm

Ms Ciara McKenna-Keane:

With respect to the care workers, they are not qualified to support the foster family in this case. The foster family were approved for Molly's age group but not for her disability or level of disability. They relied on their link social worker to help them to access supports and services. That social worker then had to advocate to the HSE disability service, which became Tusla, in order to get those services for Molly. They were not forthcoming. I suppose they were as frustrated as the foster family in that regard.

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