Written answers

Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Department of Children and Youth Affairs

Child Abuse

Photo of Robert TroyRobert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason there is a disparity between Health Service Executive Regions regarding the percentage of referrals of child abuse where a preliminary enquiry took place within 24 hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52371/12]

Photo of Frances FitzgeraldFrances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The disparity referred to by the Deputy is, I am informed by the HSE, in the main, attributable to the use of different systems of child abuse management across HSE regions. This is a legacy issue from the time of the former Health Boards and is being addressed in the context of the Child and Family Services Reform Programme. This programme is seeing the development of a single national service delivery model.

Further, HSE Children and Families Services are streamlining a national standarised Child protection Notification System and national standardised business process to seek to ensure that data and systems are unified across all regions.

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