Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 February 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Tusla

Mr. Pat Smyth:

That is a very good question. I will have my colleagues get into it because they are much more closely apprised of it. The areas in which we need development would absolutely benefit from an apprenticeship type approach, or even something that allows existing staff to take some time out to work on education programmes with educational institutions. There has been some work done with some of the institutes of technology, ITs, that want to provide additional training to staff. I will let Mr. Gibson give the committee a deeper update on those developments.