Three social workers involved in the processing of the false Maurice McCabe sexual abuse allegation in Tusla are to face a fitness to practise inquiry.

Here is a selection of people who have begun new roles with companies in Ireland, including Horse Sport Ireland, Veterinary Council of Ireland, Sims IVF Group, Smith & Williamson Ireland and Deloitte.

Hospitals in the south of the country, which are hard-pressed to recruit radiographers, have committed to offering contracts to students who complete a new Masters in Diagnostic Radiography at University College Cork (UCC).

The body which represents speech and language therapists has queried why it was not asked to address an Oireachtas committee meeting today on HSE plans to change assessment of need for children.

The Minister for Health has signed two sets of regulations aimed at protecting the public who use the services of Dietitians and Speech and Language Therapists.

Occupational therapists have criticised changes to an assessment of need for children under disability legislation, just as a High Court judgement will compel the HSE to deliver outstanding assessments within six weeks for two families who challenged the former system.

The Irish Cancer Society and the Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute have joined forces to dispel the myths about the role of nutrition in cancer prevention and treatment.

People with little training beyond an online course bought on Groupon are advertising themselves as counsellors to the depressed and even suicidal — as there is no law stopping them.

More than a third of the country’s 64,000 nurses and midwives have paid their regulatory authority the full registration fee of €150.

Ireland’s first multi-profession health regulator now has statutory powers to examine complaints against social workers and other registered practitioners.

Rehab has today announced the appointment of its new chief executive, Mo Flynn, on a €140,000-a-year salary.

Since the reduction of guidance counsellors hours in post-primary schools, the incremental value to the exchequer has been imperceptible.

A lobby group for frontline social care workers has vowed to highlight systemic failures in the State’s social care machinery and how austerity is affecting the most vulnerable in society.

ONE OF the social workers had an unblinking stare which was fixed on me at all times.

THE new body which will begin disciplinary hearings involving social workers next year will not deal with older cases, it emerged yesterday.