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

Dr. Aisling Gillen:

We identified that the front door was a particular point of difficulty for social workers. We have front-loaded senior practitioner posts into the front door.

We are putting our more experienced people at the front door for the purposes of detecting risk. That has been a shift in the last six to eight months. That is really identifying-----