Organisation: Fresh Start

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Tusla plans to offer 24/7 support to foster carers

Tusla, the Child And Family Agency, plans to offer 24-hour support to all foster carers in Ireland.

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HIQA investigation leads to closure of fostering service in Dublin

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Fresh Start foster service ‘insufficiently resourced’

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220 jobs threatened at care units for children

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€9.6m to house 60 troubled teenagers last year

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Aryzta splashes out €900m on US firms

Health boards pay out €85m for 600 children in care

HEALTH boards paid out €85 million last year to keep just 600 children in residential care, new figures have revealed.

Mon, 10 Jan, 2005

Opposition anger over disturbed boy’s ordeal

OPPOSITION parties last night rounded on the Government for its failure to find a suitable place in care for a brain-damaged 17-year-old boy forced to spend another night in prison.

Fri, 13 Feb, 2004

This is Prozac. It is being given to children in care as young as eight

MOOD-ALTERING drugs, including Prozac and Ritalin, are being prescribed to children as young as eight in residential care to treat challenging behaviour.

Mon, 02 Feb, 2004