HSE in scandal over 188 child deaths

AN AVERAGE of 18 children per year have died over the past 10 years while being supported by or having just finished contact with social services, the HSE has admitted.

These figures have been described as “shocking” by Fine Gael’s spokesman on children, Alan Shatter, who said it was a “scandal” that 84 of these 188 children suffered “unnatural deaths” that went uninvestigated by the HSE.

Ever since an independent inquiry into the deaths of children in care was set up, and then 17-year-old Daniel McAnaspie’s body was found in Co Meath, the HSE has been under pressure to release these figures.