A total of 22 children and young people in care or known to the child protection system, died in 2017, the panel tasked with charting such deaths has said.

Reviews into the deaths of children in care criticise how some cases were allowed to “drift” before meaningful action was taken, and the lack of coordination between social workers and other professionals such as Public Health Nurses and mental health services.

Five reports into the deaths of children known to the care services have found shortcomings in how the cases were dealt with.

The deaths of nine young people, who had been in the Irish care system, were not as a result of the services they had received.

Forty-six children known to care services have died since the start of 2010 including 13 in the first four months of this year, with the HSE admitting that its frontline services are under pressure.

Two children in State care and 10 more known to child protection services have died so far this year, health chiefs have revealed.

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A GROUP set up to review deaths and serious incidents involving children in state care or known to the child protection services is struggling to cope with its workload.

A team set up to investigate deaths and serious injuries of children and young people known to social services cannot cope with its workload, it has warned.

THE Government cannot justify cutting pension tax relief in the budget, according to Standard Life.

THE Government may have to cut non-classroom teachers again next year to keep within education staffing limits as part of the EU/IMF bailout, Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has been told by his officials.

Four influential ministers in Ariel Sharon’s Likud Party said tonight they would resign from the government if the prime minister did not agree within two weeks to hold a national referendum on his Gaza withdrawal plan.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon struggled to keep his fragile coalition intact today after the Cabinet approved his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip by 2005.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon struggled to keep his fragile coalition intact today after the Cabinet approved his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip by 2005.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon fired two hardline ministers today, paving the way for his Gaza pullout plan, but also triggering a possible political crisis.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon today threatened to dismiss Cabinet ministers who do not support his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, raising the stakes in a showdown that could break up the government, participants in the meeting said.

ISRAEL Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told his stunned Likud Party yesterday he plans to dismantle settlements in the Gaza Strip, turning it into a Jewish-free zone.

Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia is said to have threatened to quit today after a row with Yasser Arafat.

ISRAELI forces killed eight Palestinians and an Israeli soldier was shot dead yesterday as Israel’s centre-left Labour Party said it was pulling out of talks on joining Ariel Sharon’s coalition.