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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Reports (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: "The Study of Young Carers in the Irish Population”, published by the then Department of Health and Children in 2010, highlights the importance of creating a better understanding of children as carers in Ireland. It found that it is very difficult to identify young carers in the population. In order to learn more about children that undertake caring roles, my Department requested...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Remit (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: The Child and Family Agency has a Parenting Support Strategy (PSS) in place. This strategy gives a mandate for the commissioning of evidence based parenting support programmes in all 17 local areas. The Agency funds a range of parenting support services including Parenting Programmes, Parent and Toddler services, Springboard Projects, Parentline, Marte Meo model,Lone Parent Services and...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 729, 730 and 740 to 742, inclusive, together. I wish to assure the House that this Government is committed to establishing an effective Commission of Investigation into matters relating to Mother and Baby Homes which can deliver on public expectations in a realistic manner. Considerable progress has been achieved to date and discussions are on-going with...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 731 and 744 together. Special Care involves the detention of a child for his or her own welfare and protection in a Special Care Unit on order of the High Court. Special Care Units differ from ordinary residential care in that the Units offer higher staff ratios, on-site education as well as specialised input such as psychology and child psychiatric...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: As the Deputy will be aware, children who required a high support placement were previously accommodated in one of two national high support units. However, this arrangement was not always found to be in the best interests of the child, given that this usually meant that the child was placed outside their local area at a time when building relationships with a family and community was...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Staff Recruitment (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: I have been advised by the Agency that sanction has been granted to fill three vacant positions in the Assessment Consultation and Therapy service and the recruitment process is now been progressed.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Investigations (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: I have requested the information from the Child and Family Agency and I will revert to the Deputy when this information is to hand.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: I have requested the information from the Child and Family Agency and I will revert to the Deputy when this information is to hand.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Programmes (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: The Child and Family Agency funds a range of parenting support services across the State, including a range of Parenting Programmes, Parent and Toddler Services, Springboard Projects, Parentline, Marte Meo model, Lone Parent Services, Treoir and Teen Parent Support Programmes. These parent support services take place in various settings, including in the network of Family Resource Centres....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Contracts (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: My Department has an administrative arrangement(s) with Pobal for the provision of services across a number of childcare and youth programmes. The total value of payments made to Pobal for these programmes in 2013 amounted to €101 million (inclusive of administrative costs). Also, since the Department of Children and Youth Affairs was established in July 2011 the Department of Health...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Cafés Provision (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: In 2014 some €500,000 in capital funding has been made available to my Department for small capital projects in the youth services. It is intended that the grants will be made available to youth projects and services that are funded by my Department. The criteria for the grants anticipates that eligible proposals will, in the main, be for small scale projects, for example,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: The Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme provides a free pre-school year to all eligible children before commencing primary school. Approximately 68,000 children avail of the provision each academic year. There is no provision under the ECCE programme to provide for a second free pre-school year for any child. However, the programme includes a number of additional provisions...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: The Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme provides for one free pre-school year for all eligible children before commencing primary school. Children with special needs can avail of the free pre-school provision over two years on a pro-rata basis, for example availing of the programme for 2 days a week in the first year and for 3 days a week in the second year. Application...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Remit (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: Under the Child Care Act, 1991 and the Child and Family Agency Act 2013, the Child and Family Agency has a duty to promote the welfare of children who are not receiving adequate care or protection. The policy of the Agency is to place children in care settings, preferably in foster care, as close as possible to their home and community. A very small minority of young people under 18 years...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Regulation (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: As pointed out to the Deputy in replies to previous Questions on this matter in April and July 2014, this Department is in the process of introducing a number of reforms with a view to improving the quality of early years services. Legislation to strengthen the current inspection regime and underpin the Early Years Quality Agenda has been enacted. Regulations to give effect to the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Court Judgments (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: The Deputy refers to the judgement in the case of Health Service Executive v WR (Neutral Citation (2007) IEHC 459), which was one of three judgments of the High Court, delivered by Mr Justice MacMenamin in 2007. In this particular case, in which a child was being considered for placement in a special care unit, the judge sought to establish the process whereby cases were prioritised by the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Staff Data (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: At the end of July 2014, there were 1,395.92 whole time equivalent social workers employed at the Child and Family Agency. A rigorous system of risk analysis is in place in each area to ensure that staffing numbers do not fall to an unsafe level and gaps identified through this process are addressed with the additional resources of temporary staff as required. All identified vacancies are the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Cafés Expenditure (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: In recent years there has been a significant investment in the development of youth café facilities in Ireland and capital funding has been made available to my Department for these facilities. In 2013 a capital allocation of € 1.5m was made available to my Department for a new Youth Café scheme. In all 95 applications with proposals for new youth cafés were received...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 753 and 755 together. The information requested is being collated by my Department and will be forwarded directly to the Deputy as soon as it is finalised.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: The information requested is being collated by my Department and will be forwarded directly to the Deputy as soon as it is finalised.