Falling through the cracks

IF you are not part of the solution, then maybe you are part of the problem.

That is one of the conclusions that could be gleaned from a new report into how the HSE’s special care service impacts on the lives of some of the most difficult children in the state.

The study, commissioned by the now defunct Children Acts Advisory Board (CAAB), charts whether the risk factors which brought these young people into special care in the first place increased, decreased or remained static between the time of the application in 2007 and November of last year.