Mr. Cormac Quinlan:

The Signs of Safety programme is designed to allow us to engage with families in a participative way but with Tusla always maintaining a focus on child safety. There are always bottom lines that we hold in how we keep children safe. Best practice in child protection is about engaging children and families in participative thinking. At the end of the day, families have to think through their difficulties and we have to support them in that if children are going to live safely with them. We will always maintain a rigorous focus on child safety. The Signs of Safety programme is not a panacea that no child will ever come into care. It is a way of working effectively with families to keep children safe but always recognising some children will have to come into care to be safe.