Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 June 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs
9:00 am
Mr. Pat Smyth:
Of course. On the question we have about the individual unit in the UK that has had a bad inspection report, we have sought assurance around that. Our social workers would visit. The child, when moved to the UK, is still in the care of Tusla so we still have an assigned social worker who visits that child on a very regular basis. As this is a step-up again on the specialist care we were talking about earlier, the expectation is that the term of the placement should not be more than a year for that child.
The term of the placement should not be more than a year for that child.
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