The new Child and Family Agency needs more money to fulfil its brief and is being weighed down by "unsustainable" legal spending, including historical court bills.

IT will be next year before a group charged with looking into care provided to murdered teenager Daniel McAnaspie will report its findings.

AN Irish man with an intellectual disability and a risk due to his sexualised behaviour will have to be transferred from a British hospital back to Ireland.

The United Nations Convention on the Right of the Child specifically stipulated that the views of children must be taken into account in matters affecting them. But legal proceedings are frequently taken with the children having no say at all.