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Money belonging to a resident in a centre for people with disabilities was used inappropriately to buy items including cutlery, soft furnishings, and a fireplace, according to a report by health watchdog Hiqa.

A sum of €16,000 has been approved for a child who sued his mother after she put her car into the wrong gear and hit a wall.

Donna Hartnett might have been over the top in her description of crèche-going children as ‘caged hens’ but Claire O’Sullivan agrees that it’s not a normal childhood for smallies. (COMMENT ON THIS STORY)

It has been claimed that nearly a third of Irish parents use over-the-counter medicine to get their child to sleep.

Five flights in 45 hours via five countries with two kids under four, all heading to New Zealand. Caroline Hennessy presents her ‘long haul travel with kids‘ survival guide.

MORE than one in 10 Irish parents are unsure what to do if their child has a fever and 60% panic when a child’s temperature is high, according to a new survey conducted among 300 parents of under sixes for the medicine brand Nurofen For Children.

Food colourings linked to hyperactivity — including some which are present in Calpol — should be banned from children’s medicines, according to a charity based in Britain.

Two thirds of parents give over-the-counter pain relief medicines to their children incorrectly — with up to a third of parents using pain relief to sedate misbehaving children.

A mother found guilty of poisoning her own baby with a powerful pain killer murdered out of a craving for attention, a judge told her today.

THE amount of paracetamol that should be given to children is being reviewed by the state’s drug policing body following a decision to cut it in half in Britain.

THE HSE’s only medical allergist has accused health food shops and websites that offer allergy tests to the public of “racketeering and opportunism”.

THE European Union’s food safety watchdog has said a scientific report found only limited evidence linking the use of certain food additives to hyperactivity in children.

UP TO 3,000 children are going without basics such as Calpol, school shoes and proper clothes because they are not entitled to the Children’s Allowance.

THERE can be few greater leaps of faith than the one involved in entrusting a young, beloved and vulnerable child to the care of a hired stranger.

NEARLY 3,000 youngsters end up in hospital every year after getting their hands on dangerous substances.