Aindrias Moynihan (Cork North-West, Fianna Fail)
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2399. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the up-to-date position regarding her engagement with the relevant stakeholders including foster families, on the proposed national standards for children's social services; the future she envisages for the 2003 standards; the role for foster families; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42380/25]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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Thanks you Deputy for your question relating to national standards for children's social services. As you may be aware, statutory responsibility in respect of the setting of national standards for children's social services, falls under the remit of HIQA, as outlined in section 8 of the Health Act, 2007. In 2019, HIQA began the process of developing the National Standards for Children's Social Services. The proposed standards, when approved, will replace the four sets of existing standards:

• National Standards for Foster Care, 2003
• National Standards for Children's Residential Centres, 2018
• National Standards for the Protection and Welfare of Children, 2012
• National Standards for Special Care Units, 2015