Social workers may be unable to meet the recommendations made in various child abuse inquiry reports because of the high number of children assigned to them, claim academics in University College Cork.

TWO British-based experts yesterday backed calls from social workers here for the HSE to alter a new planned “standardisation” model of dealing with certain child welfare cases.

SOCIAL workers are on a collision course with the HSE over a new standardisation process for dealing with child protection cases, including sexual abuse cases.