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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Roderic O'Gorman: ...placements for children in the care of the State. This is due to a number of factors, including difficulties in recruiting and retaining staff, difficulties in maintaining the number of foster carers, the complexity of the presentation of some children presenting to Tusla, and the unprecedented number of separated children seeking international protection who require Tusla services....
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Kathleen Funchion: ...need to start moving away from the private sector because the idea of having profit mixed with vulnerable children will not work. The two areas we need to focus on are how we can support foster carers and what we can do to increase the number of people who are willing to become foster carers. In fairness, the sector has been vocal on solutions. The other issue is the recruitment and...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Roderic O'Gorman: ...foster care allowance will have increased by €75 per child. It increased by 25% on 1 January and the remainder of the increase will apply from 1 November. This will mean that this year, foster carers will receive additional support of €1,700 per year and by the end of 2025, that figure will have increased to an additional €3,900 per year. That is a necessary and...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Kathleen Funchion: Those measures were welcome. Is there a forum or an opportunity for representatives from the social worker sector, Tusla and foster carers to sit down with the Minister? Perhaps one is already in place. Tusla, in fairness, says that as well. Everybody says we cannot have this and we need to end special emergency places, yet we end up having to resort to them. I understand that in a...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy asked quite a few questions. In terms of engagement with the sector, I have met representatives of the Irish Foster Care Association, IFCA, the representative body for foster carers, and also of Movement for Change, which is a new representative body, several times and discussed the increase in funding. I met both of those organisation after the budget as well. In terms of...