Taoiseach Enda Kenny has confirmed that two reports into the ‘Grace’ foster home sex abuse scandal will be published this month.

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Senior child protection staff in the ‘Grace’ foster home sex abuse scandal have yet to be risk assessed or moved from their positions because legal red tape is preventing the HSE from “inappropriately” identifying them.

WHEN the “Grace” childcare scandal broke, one provoked by allegations of the most serious abuse in a foster care setting, it was as if a stone had been turned over and the darkest episodes in our history had returned to haunt and mock us.