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-----