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A report published today opens the lid on the shocking abuse and neglect of a child and young adult left languishing in a foster care home, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell

A joint investigation by gardaí and British police was launched into claims at least one other vulnerable child was seriously abused while placed at the same foster home as Grace, in addition to a small number of other “potentially serious” cases.

The full horror of the abuse suffered by Grace, an intellectually disabled woman, is laid bare in two shocking reports to be published tomorrow.

Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has removed the final roadblock to publishing two key HSE reports into the ‘Grace’ foster abuse sex scandal.

The HSE has called on the Government’s most senior legal official to provide it with evidence showing why it must publish two detailed reports into the Grace foster abuse scandal, amid an ongoing stand-off between the State bodies.

The HSE will today tell the Government if it will publish two detailed reports into serious foster home abuse which is set to be examined by a state inquiry amid repeated cover-up claims.

HSE boss says it ‘wouldn’t be fair’ to force staff to step aside amid inquiry into foster home abuse claims

Senior officials in the HSE and State Child and Family Agency Tusla linked to the ‘Grace’ foster abuse scandal should temporarily step down pending the outcome of the imminent State inquiry into the controversy, it has been claimed.

The woman known as Grace and 46 other intellectually disabled boys, girls, men, and women who went through a Waterford foster home have been denied justice for far too long.

A long-delayed state inquiry into the ‘Grace’ foster abuse scandal is set to begin within weeks after an independent report into the controversy was finally published last night.

The whistleblower who first highlighted the Grace foster abuse scandal has welcomed the fact a State inquiry is now set to occur into her belief that the case was covered up by health service officials.

An independent State report into the 'Grace' foster abuse scandal has found the HSE failed to properly investigate claims of cover-up, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith and Daniel McConnell of the Irish Examiner.

Health body accepts ‘failings’ after leaving mute woman with family that sexually and physically abused her, but little will change until reports into the matter are published, writes political reporter Fiachra Ó Cionnaith