Inspectors may stay overnight in child residential care centres

INSPECTORS checking on residential centres for children in the care system may be required to stay overnight as part of their review process.

As part of a number of recommendations on how to improve the inspection process, young adults who have recently left the care system may also be asked to help with review of residential facilities.

The recommendations are included in a new report published yesterday by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) on the views of young people of the current system of inspections.