HIQA finds teen care centre ‘in crisis’

SINCE May 2010, 18 teenage girls have been detained at a special care centre which has been branded dysfunctional and “in crisis” by inspectors from the Health and Information Quality Authority.

The young people at the centre on a day in October included:

* A 16-year-old girl from the HSE West area who was there for 11-and-a-half months. She had previously been in two residential care homes and six foster placements.