Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 October 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency

2:00 am

Mr. Gerry Hone:

That is it. It works hand-in-hand with our intake service on that. There is oversight of that in place. Barnardos is one of our key partners for youth services and family support services, and it has a project for support for advocacy for parents of children in care, which is a key project it runs and which we fund. We have a national service level agreement with Barnardos, but it is involved locally and out in the regions, providing support services to young people and families. That is really about family support and keeping families together as well as youth support. It is very key for maintaining family units and keeping them together, preventing the need for young people to come into care. It is subject to local service level agreements for the local services it provides and our family support staff have oversight of those agreements locally. They visit and check those services regularly.

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