Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 March 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion

Ms Catherine Bond:

It is not a lot of staff but at the same time it provides a stopgap. Foster carers, however, routinely would say to us that they have to go back to the beginning and tell the story all over again with each person. The children in care would also say the same. It is not fair to ask children in care to keep rehashing the reasons they are in care or so on.