Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 April 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Carmel Halton:

Yes. Practitioners are setting up their own reflective peer support groups throughout the country in recognition of the need for this quality of support and engagement. They are doing it themselves, and that is a good and positive step forward, because we have proactive professionals working on their own behalf to address issues. We do not have a workforce which is waiting for people to deliver services. Practitioners are actively attempting to address serious concerns that they have about their own needs for support, and we would like to support them in that. We would be happy to support anything that can be done to progress these kinds of developments.

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