Interpol has been called in to try to identify a teenage girl found dazed in Dublin city.

The country’s children and family services will for the first time undergo independent inspection and monitoring by Hiqa after the watchdog yesterday unveiled details of its new inspection regime.

The majority of homeless children known to the Health Service Executive’s care services are in the HSE South area.

THIS review concerned a boy who died of complications associated with diabetes three months before his 18th birthday.

THE HSE has been accused of burying a confidential report which outlines a series of failings in the delivery of support services for children and their families.