Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)
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384. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps that are being taken and will be taken by her Department to incorporate the findings and recommendations of reports published by the national review panel for serious incidents and child deaths into her Department’s child protection policy. [51869/13]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The findings of the National Review Panel Reports consisted mainly of operational learning points. The HSE accepted all of these recommendations and has been undertaking a country-wide process to improve practice in relation to such cases across the country. Most recently this process has involved the convening of a series of workshops for social work staff and managers nationwide. A minimum of two workshops were held in each region presented by Ms Helen Buckley, Chair of the National Review Panel and Ms Lynne Peyton, Consultant in Children’s Services and Social Care. Ms Peyton was responsible for the three neglect audits undertaken following the Roscommon incest case. The workshops covered the learning emerging from the Child Death Review Process and the neglect audits.

The necessary actions to incorporate the findings and recommendations of reports published by the National Review Panel for Serious Incidents and Child Deaths are being implemented at a policy level in the context of the Government’s reform programme for children’s services, the most radical reform of child welfare and protection services ever undertaken in the State. The integrated delivery of these reforms will ensure that responses to many review groups recommendations will be mainstreamed into the work programme of the new Child and Family Agency.