Claims staff in children’s residential homes subjected to abuse

SOCIAL care workers in children’s residential homes are sustaining broken limbs and severe mental trauma at the hands of the children, but are given too little support by their Health Service Executive employers.

That is according to Phil McFadden of IMPACT’s north Dublin health branch, who works in the sector and has encountered numerous social care workers who have experienced violence.

“One girl nearly had her eyes gouged out. Another had her head split open. One had her jaw broken after she was hit by a kitchen utensil. There is also the mental abuse, which can be just as terrible.”