Report on child deaths in care to be published

CHILDREN’S Minister Frances Fitzgerald hopes to publish the report into the deaths of children known to the care system within the next month to eight weeks, provided the Attorney General does not raise any legal issues blocking its publication.

The report, carried out by the Independent Review into Deaths of Children in Care, was passed to the office of Ms Fitzgerald just before Christmas.

It is now with the Attorney General and Ms Fitzgerald said yesterday that if there are no legal impediments to publication she hoped to publish it by the end of the month or at some stage over the next eight weeks.