Serious shortcomings in foster care services in Carlow, Kilkenny and South Tipperary are outlined in a report from the Health Information and Quality Authority.

New analysis of Tusla’s legal spend in childcare cases shows that the type of case influences how much money is spent on it.

A judge in a family law court has directed that Gardaí be made aware of “hugely criminal” abuse allegations concerning an 11-month-old baby boy.

A brother of the head of legal services at Tusla has been one of the top 10 earners in barristers’ fees at the agency for the last three years.

Risks remain in children's services due to staffing shortages, ineffective governance and management and a lack of regulation, the Health Information and Quality Authority has warned.

Tusla has said it takes immediate action to protect children when an allegation of abuse in foster care is made.

Tusla's child protection and welfare services in the Carlow, Kilkenny and South Tipperary area failed to notify gardaí about every allegation of suspected abuse and neglect it received.

A number of prominent politicians have called on the Government to establish an immediate State inquiry into forced and illegal adoption.

Tusla has warned that “strict financial governance” will be needed to bring it in on budget this year, stressing that if cost containment measures are not achieved the savings will need to be made in other areas.

The parents of a seven-year-old boy against whom an unfounded allegation of sex abuse was made claim that the way the school principal over-reacted, and Tusla’s absolute refusal to delete the file, has ‘destroyed’ their lives, writes Michael Clifford

The Government’s planned legislation to allow people separated from their families through adoption to have access to their own records and histories has been slammed as “unfit for purpose” by a civil liberties group.

Rape Crisis Network Ireland (RCNI) has said that Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, appeared to be “in the dark” regarding its own use of joint garda-social worker interview teams in child sexual violence cases.

Major deficiencies in staffing and systems at Tusla, the State’s child and family agency, meant serious child abuse allegations were not properly handled, a damning new report will conclude today.

The drip-feed of information over the O’Higgins Tribunal and the Disclosures Tribunal had only one possible outcome, writes Special Correspondent Michael Clifford.

The drip-feed of information over the O’Higgins Tribunal and the Disclosures Tribunal had only one possible outcome, writes Special Correspondent Michael Clifford

A mother who had fostered a child for more than 10 years was falsely accused by the HSE of facilitating his access to pornography in the family home, an investigation by the Irish Examiner has learned.

A mother who had fostered a child for more than 10 years was falsely accused by the HSE of facilitating his access to pornography in the family home, an investigation by the Irish Examiner has learned.

The Charleton Tribunal came across a serious cover-up yesterday. As of now, the cover-up is only alleged, writes Michael Clifford.

The Disclosures Tribunal took a different turn when it reopened for business yesterday, writes Michael Clifford.

A social worker with Tusla who was asked to review a file on garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe had said she was given "a sanitised version", the Charleton tribunal has heard.

Peter Charleton asked a witness at the Disclosures Tribunal whether she was aware that Leo Varadkar was the Taoiseach. The witness, a social worker, confirmed that she was aware of this. She also knew Enda Kenny was the previous Taoiseach, writes Michael Clifford

A senior Tusla manager has said that the failure by Tusla to correct a series of errors which resulted in false allegations of child abuse being made against garda whistle blower Maurice McCabe were "absolutely coincidences".

Helen O’Callaghan hears how to pick the best quality care.

The HSE has denied reports that it failed to correspond with Gardaí for three years, following a report into the handling of the 'Grace' case.

Michael Clifford deconstructs an interview by the woman at the centre of the Maurice McCabe/Tusla controversy and finds that it raises more questions than it answered.

Tusla management has advised staff to report concerns of malpractice to their line managers or through the agency’s Protected Disclosures facility.

False allegations of a most grievous nature were made against Sgt Maurice McCabe, at great distress to him and his family. Serious questions must now be answered, writes Michael Clifford.

Whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe has said a false allegation of sex abuse circulated by Tusla, the child and family agency, has destroyed his family.

Intervention for children at risk should be made on the basis of identified need, rather than availability of places, according to the chairperson of the National Review Panel on the deaths of children known to care services.

Italy’s refusal to allow gardaí assess migrants on Italian soil before they are transferred here is stalling the Government’s commitment to take in 2,662 migrants by year’s end, according to the Department of Justice.

On average, more than 130 babies under the age of one are taken into care annually.

Tusla says it will address deficits in a residential children’s care home in which absences from care were rampant and inspectors voiced concerns over inappropriate sexual behaviour, phone access, and alcohol and drug use.

A HSE audit report on Tusla, the child and family agency, has raised dozens of issues of non-compliance regarding payments to staff and timekeeping at the organisation.

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.

Reports that the Health Information and Quality Authority has found that 177 cases of retrospective referrals of child abuse remained unallocated to social workers last August in Tusla’s Dublin South-East and Wicklow area is another indication of the great cultural change needed around these issues.

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.

The HSE’s most senior official has said “only a complete fool” would believe the serious abuse claims against a Waterford foster family are not being repeated elsewhere after revealing he expects multiple law suits over the case.

Vulnerable children with specialised needs are being sent to special residential centres abroad because of a chronic shortage of secure, high-support places and services here.

Children living in a state-run residential centre were not always safe, an inspection by the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) reveals.