Emergency care plan for children not to be affected

LONG-DELAYED plans to introduce 24-hour emergency care for at-risk children won’t be affected by the current recruitment freeze, say HSE bosses.

Emergency care plan for children not to be affected

But it has already been two-and-a-half years since the tragedy that prompted calls for the service and it will be at least several months before services are up and running.

The after-hours cover was pledged to be set up in response to the amount of murder-suicide cases involving parents and their children in recent years.

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