High-risk children given ‘cheapest’ care

HIGH-RISK children are being put on waiting lists or placed “in the cheapest option” of care by the HSE, a leading residential service provider has claimed.

Paula Kane, manager of Ashdale Care, a group of private care homes to which the HSE refers children, said she had kept quiet for too long and did not want to see mistakes of the past repeated due to what she called an “alleged lack of funding”.

Ms Kane claimed that: