A child in residential care is injured every day, according to data which also indicates many of the injuries result in hospital treatment.

On average, more than one child in care is injured every day, and more than 56% of those injuries require hospital treatment. These figures form part of a very disturbing picture.

Teens with severe mental and physical disabilities are being forced to make do without vital State help due to an “unexpected” rise in demand — which the HSE was first warned of four years ago.

A private British company contracted by the Health Service Executive (HSE) to provide a hearing screening to newborns has refused to clarify why its employees wear uniforms bearing the HSE logo.

Frances Fitzgerald, the children’s minister, will today launch a new advocacy service for children in care amid calls for an overhaul of the guardian ad litem service in the courts.

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Child health screening and school immunisation programmes could be under threat as a direct result of deepening health service budget cuts.

Surgeries will be cancelled in public hospitals to cope with the exodus of health staff under the Government’s early retirement scheme.

THERE were more than 2,000 formal referrals between gardaí and the HSE in relation to child sex abuse during 2010, figures have revealed.

NINETY-THREE-year-old Esther Holden had hoped to end her days in a Dublin public nursing home that is due to close soon.

THE Health Service Executive has spent more than €100 million on predominantly private security services for its facilities over the last six years.

There are only two hospice beds available across 11 counties for children with life-limiting illnesses, according to a new report into respite services in Dublin Mid-Leinster and Dublin North-East.

PATIENT support groups have called for an overhaul of the HSE’s rental scheme of buildings and land with new figures revealing over €31 million was spent on leases in 2008.

THE tragic death of Baby P in England will be repeated here because of the poor standards of protection for children at risk, Fine Gael has warned.

THERE are no dedicated residential beds to stabilise or detoxify drug addicts or alcoholics outside Dublin, according to a report by the HSE.

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