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By James Connolly
A REPORT on the deaths of 196 children in the care of the state over the past 10 years will be presented to the Minister for Children shortly.
The report is expected to include details of 12 unlawful deaths, approximately 26 young people who died by suicide and 19 young people whose deaths were drug-related.Minister Frances Fitzgerald said yesterday that she was “shocked” at the lack of consistency between different regions of the country in the area of child protection.
She said the findings by Norah Gibbons of Barnardos and child law expert Geoffrey Shannon would be made public “as soon as possible”.
“The first goal of my department is child protection and clearly any death of a child in any circumstances is to be totally regretted,” she said.
The minister was addressing a landmark Early Years’ conference in Sligo. Barnardo’s chief executive, Fergus Finlay, who also spoke at the event said while the report’s content was unknown, there was existing evidence of what it may contain.
“You can pretty well predict that some of these cases will have been handled very well and unavoidable things will have happened and some will not have been handled well and there will have been an inconsistency across the country, because that has been the pattern,” he said.
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