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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Counselling Services (15 Apr 2015)

James Reilly: The Child and Family Agency, Tusla, along with other agencies, provides counselling and support to children and families availing of its services including children who have been abused sexually. If a child is taken into care as a result of sexual abuse, the allocated social worker in Tusla will provide counselling and support. Where children have suffered sexual abuse, therapy services are...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (15 Apr 2015)

James Reilly: In the region of €170 million is provided annually by my Department to support the provision of a free pre-school year under the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme. The free pre-school provision is provided over a period of 38 weeks with approximately 4,300 childcare services throughout the country participating in the programme. The funding provided under the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Costs (15 Apr 2015)

James Reilly: In the region of €260 million is provided annually by my Department to support a number of childcare programmes which assist parents in accessing quality and affordable childcare. More than 100,000 children benefit from this investment each year. These programmes are in addition to the support provided to all parents in the form of Child Benefit. The childcare programmes include...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Provision (15 Apr 2015)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 436 and 438 together. My Department administers a range of funding schemes and programmes to support the provision of youth services to young people throughout the country including those from disadvantaged communities. The funding schemes support national and local youth work provision to some 380,000 young people and involve approximately 1,400 youth...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Bullying of Children (15 Apr 2015)

James Reilly: I share concerns about bullying and its consequences. We know from the Growing Up in Ireland survey that is commissioned by my Department that a total of 40% of nine-year-olds reported being victims of bullying in the past year, and boys and girls experienced similar rates of victimisation. Prevalence rates based on information provided by the child’s mother were substantially lower...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (15 Apr 2015)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 439 to 441, inclusive, 443, 445 and 446 together. As part of governance arrangements, the Child and Family Agency, Tusla, provides my Department with regular performance activity reports for monitoring purposes. These include figures showing the number of referrals which are disaggregated by welfare concerns and abuse concerns. The most recent validated...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Juvenile Offenders (15 Apr 2015)

James Reilly: The 3 children detention schools, all located at Oberstown, Lusk, Co. Dublin, currently provide a total of 54 detention places for children ordered to be remanded or committed by the courts, with 48 places for boys and 6 places for girls. The detention schools cater for boys up to the age of 17 years who are serving a sentence, boys up to the age of 18 years who are remanded in custody...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (15 Apr 2015)

James Reilly: The Child and Family Agency, Tusla, provides funding to voluntary and community organisations providing relationship, child and bereavement counselling services. These services aim to support people to deal with difficulties they are experiencing in their relationships, to help children whose lives have been affected by parental separation and to support families who have experienced the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Programmes (15 Apr 2015)

James Reilly: The Area Based Childhood (ABC) Programme (2013-2016) is an innovative prevention and early intervention initiative consisting of committed funding for an area-based approach to helping to improve outcomes for children and thereby impacting on child poverty. The ABC Programme targets joint investment of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and The Atlantic Philanthropies of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (15 Apr 2015)

James Reilly: My Department administers a range of funding schemes and programmes to support the provision of youth services to young people throughout the country including those from disadvantaged communities. The funding schemes support national and local youth work provision to some 380,000 young people and involve approximately 1,400 youth work staff in 477 projects and 40,000 volunteers working in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Semi-State Bodies Dividends (15 Apr 2015)

James Reilly: I can confirm that there are no semi-State commercial companies under the aegis of my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges (1 Apr 2015)

James Reilly: Responsibility for the funding of Domestic, Sexual and Gender Based Violence Services transferred from the HSE to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, upon its establishment on 1 January, 2014. In 2014, Tusla provided funding in excess of over €17 million to support the provision of these services. This included the funding of some 60 services throughout the country: -...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (1 Apr 2015)

James Reilly: Crannog Nua, in Co. Dublin, has been designated as a secure special care unit from June 2014, and is in the process of being upgraded to provide secure and expanded residential facilities. Up to this time in 2014, it was operational as a high support unit. Staff from the residential component of this unit have been temporarily reassigned to other locations while the capital project is...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Supports (1 Apr 2015)

James Reilly: Fostering care allowances are provided in order to allow foster carers meet all of the child’s daily living needs, e.g. food, clothing, school uniform, school books, extra-curricular activities, school trips, pocket money (depending on the age of the child), and treats such as toys, games or holidays. The foster care allowance is currently €325 per week per child up to 12 years...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (31 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: As the Deputy is aware, the recommendation that the Child and Family Agency would conduct a longitudinal study to follow young people who leave care for ten years to map their transition to adulthood, is contained at action 65 of the Ryan Report recommendations. At the last meeting of the Ryan Monitoring Implementation Group, held on 6th November 2014, the Child and Family Agency indicated...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse Prevention (31 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: The Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (the Ryan Report) was published in May 2009. It detailed disturbing and significant levels of historic abuse of children, who were placed by the Irish State, in residential institutions run by religious orders. The Government accepted all of the recommendations of the Ryan Report, and in response developed a detailed Implementation...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Social Workers Recruitment (31 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: The Child and Family Agency (TUSLA) have advised that there were 1,397.04 whole time equivalent social workers employed at the end of February 2015 and that they are currently recruiting an additional 218 social workers. The impact of vacancies on service provision is risk-assessed on an ongoing basis to ensure that social work team members are never allowed to fall below what is considered...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Strategy Publication (31 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: The development of Ireland’s first Early Years Strategy is being progressed in my Department. The objective of this Strategy is to create an innovative and dynamic blueprint for the future development of Ireland’s early years sector and a coherent approach to seeking to improve the lives of children from birth to 6 years. The Early Years Strategy will address a range of issues...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Data (31 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: A recommendation to carry out a baseline audit of the quality of early care and education services was set out in Right from the Start, the Report of the Expert Advisory Group on the Early Years Strategy. This recommendation is currently being considered by my Department in the context of developing Ireland's first Early Years Strategy. I expect to be in a position to bring this Strategy...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Qualifications (31 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: My Department is currently progressing the Early Years Quality Agenda with the objective of improving the quality of child care services available to young children. As part of this process, all staff working directly with children in pre-school services must hold a major award in early childhood care and education at Level 5 on the National Framework of Qualifications, or the equivalent....