Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 June 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

HIQA Report: Engagement with Tusla

2:00 pm

Ms Patricia Finlay:

It is both. To reassure the Deputy, Signs of Safety is a strengths-based approach in working with families. It is clear, however, that there is a rigorous look at the risk within a family to a high level of detail and how can we keep children safe. That is hearing from the child, the parents and extended family. It is broadening that network out to examine how we can keep the child safe. It is extremely rigorous in its approach.