South-west couples wait longer to take adoption class

Sean O’Riordan

Cork County Council is to write to the Health Executive Service (Southern Region) to urge it to employ more social workers after hearing the plight of couples whose cases were outlined yesterday by Councillor Michael McGrath.

He said the lack of social workers was causing a backlog. In effect, he said, if it took couples two years to get on the course it meant it could take up to a further year to get approval to search for an adoption in a foreign country.