HSE claim all foster children have social worker ‘untrue’
In a report published yesterday, the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) said their inspectors had been supplied with data by the HSE in June 2009 indicating that “100% of children” in Cork city, North Cork and West Cork had an allocated social worker – but during an inspection earlier this year, it emerged 25 cases were unallocated due to maternity leave.
The HSE was also unable to give a figure for the number of children who had not been visited in the past six months by a child and family social worker.
