New guidelines plan for HSE on children-in-care deaths
The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) published its recommended guidelines, which would also see a panel of up to 20 independent experts in child care and support being selected to review the HSE’s handling of child deaths and follow-up investigations.
Up to four members of that panel could then be selected to deal with specific cases, and HIQA said it would be monitoring how effective the HSE’s response to child deaths and serious incidents involving children in the care system were.
