Fred McBride, the new CEO of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, has said to stop families in the Irish care system taking risks would be to take away their dignity.

A culture has developed where it is acceptable to assault a social care worker in Ireland.

There are, no doubt, some things Gordon Jeyes will miss when he steps down as Tusla chief executive this Friday, and you have to imagine the view from his desk is one of them, writes Noel Baker.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar has said it is up to health officials who were at the centre of the foster home abuse case in the South-East to consider calls for their resignations.

Almost one in five children waiting more than a month for a dedicated social worker is in serious danger of neglect and physical or sexual abuse, it has emerged.

Up to 800 Irish families, community groups, and organisations that have offered to accommodate and help migrants will be asked again if they want to host asylum seekers, following the Paris attacks.

Groups providing family support, rape crisis, domestic violence, and marriage counselling services all face further funding cuts, Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, has warned.

The number of senior managers working for the Child and Family Agency outnumbers its counselling and psychology staff by almost four to one.

A national register of children at risk accessible to gardaí and medical personnel 24/7 will not be available before the end of the year despite its significance in supporting child protection.

Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, says it supports a move to having private children’s residential care centres being independently inspected as suggested in a report highlighting major shortfalls in the process.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has reiterated that An Grianán “served a different purpose” to High Park Magdalene laundry — despite HSE evidence stating they were “one and the same thing”.

There was a time when many people in Ireland could have pleaded justifiable ignorance of child abuse.

The Government has been warned that it faces “a crisis a year” unless it starts ploughing additional funds into the cash-strapped Child and Family Agency, Tusla.

The State’s Child and Family Agency has warned that it will need a further €17m in funding to address shortcomings in its frontline social services.

The head of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, said he is “sympathetic” to points of concern raised by social workers in relation to proposed procedures for dealing with allegations of child abuse and neglect.

Inspections watchdog Hiqa has expressed serious concerns about children living in the direct provision system, with an inspection report showing they are at risk of physical and mental abuse.

At least 127 children have been identified as requiring “urgent attention” following an emergency review by the Child and Family Agency of case files recently discovered in Laois and Offaly.

The Government has rejected claims that State funding for marriage preparation courses provided by the Catholic support agency Accord was withdrawn because of the church’s opposition to same-sex marriage.

A social worker in the midlands employed by the Child and Family Agency, Tusla, has been put on administrative leave in the fallout from the “discovery” of hundreds of “unidentified” child protection files in the Laois/Offaly area.

A group of social workers has warned the child and family agency’s chief executive that the lack of services to meet the needs of children and families “will place children at risk”.

Tusla has called for an urgent review of a decision by a District Court Judge to strike out a case relating to alleged breaches of childcare regulations.

The level of state supports for the family of toddler Hassan Khan are set to be investigated following his shocking death.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has said the level of state supports for the family of toddler Hassan Khan are likely to be investigated following his shocking death.

Child welfare chiefs have said they will work with investigators probing the suspected murder of a two-year-old boy.

Noel Baker’s article on the Child and Family Agency/TUSLA’s “unsustainable” legal spend, (Irish Examiner, September 26) quoted Eibhlín Byrne, executive manager of TUSLA: “the current system in which we operate is broken, and increasingly adversarial”.

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.

New figures show more than 9,000 children at risk or suffering from neglect or welfare concerns are waiting to be allocated a social worker.

The Ombudsman for Children and Hiqa are to be asked to investigate why the Child and Family Agency left children in state care without an allocated social worker for more than three months this year.

The overseas placement of Irish children will continue, writes Noel Baker. It’s time to ensure the ‘before’ and ‘after’ services deliver.

The country’s only intensive therapeutic fostering service for extremely troubled children has been dropped, with the provider “devastated” by the decision.

Good morning. Here’s a look at the top stories you need to know, in the Irish Examiner’s Morning Report.

The head of the new Child and Family Agency (CFA) has said he believes all, bar the most serious crimes, should be wiped from a young person’s criminal record when they turn 18.

Adversarial legal systems, the lottery of children’s needs and deeds, talk of overhauling aspects of Ireland’s care system — in many ways Children’s Minister Frances Fitzgerald and the head of the new Child and Family Agency, Gordon Jeyes, are reading from the same notebook. But not always.

Brian Cowen famously described the Department of Health as Angola, which makes you wonder what country child and family services represents.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny pledged that the Child and Family Agency would not be just be “going through the motions” but would transform the way Ireland treats vulnerable youngsters.

Almost half of all vulnerable teens the High Court sent for urgent “special care placements” last year due to their complex issues were instead put on HSE waiting lists

The HSE is putting vulnerable teens who have committed no crime at serious risk by locking them up for 12 hours a day alongside others who have a history of arson and substance abuse.

WHAT do Gordon Jeyes and Joe Schmidt have in common? You may not have heard of Gordon Jeyes, although you will. Neither Jeyes nor Schmidt is Irish, but both are doing jobs that matter. It’s important to all of us that they both win.

Minor welfare concerns are building up to a risk of abuse in some childcare situations because of a shortage of social workers.