Pressure is growing on the Child and Family Agency to publish a report into the care offered to Daniel McAnaspie, after one man was found guilty of his murder and another pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

The Child and Family Agency has confirmed that the long-awaited Pulse-style system for logging child welfare and protection concerns will be in operation nationwide by the end of 2018.

One of the Child and Family Agency’s largest clients in providing fostering services last year returned to profit.

Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) has expressed concern about inconsistencies in the safety and quality of children’s services nationally.

A victim of sex abuse says allowing an alleged abuser to cross-examine their victim will stop people coming forward.

The Child and Family Agency Tusla has obtained an interim care order for the baby girl who was found abandoned on the roadside in Rathcoole in Dublin last Friday.

A social worker in the midlands employed by the Child and Family Agency, Tusla, has been put on administrative leave in the fallout from the “discovery” of hundreds of “unidentified” child protection files in the Laois/Offaly area.

A victim of serial paedophile Michael Ferry has said he may go to the European Court of Human Rights to get answers as to why the convicted sex offender was able to continue working at a school, where he abused more children.

An independent watchdog has intervened in the operation of a HSE-run care home where the children were engaging in high-risk behaviour, including taking drugs, drinking alcohol, inhaling butane gas, thieving and damaging property.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny pledged that the Child and Family Agency would not be just be “going through the motions” but would transform the way Ireland treats vulnerable youngsters.

The head of the new Child and Family Agency has said more people are being recruited to ensure regular inspections at Irish crèches.