Child welfare cases ‘inefficient and adversarial’

The often adversarial nature of cases involving child welfare and protection takes up much social worker time, threatens the principle of securing the best outcomes for children, and costs Tusla more money, according to a new report.

The findings are contained in a report entitled A Social and Economic Analysis of the use of Legal Services (SEALS) in the Child and Family Agency (Tusla), which was conducted by academics from the School of Applied Social Studies and the Department of Economics and Cork University Business School at UCC.