Social workers: Transfer plan may put clients at risk

Social workers in north Dublin say the welfare of their clients could be at risk if a plan to relocate them to a new office is implemented.

Social workers at the Ballymun Civic Centre have been told two thirds of staff working from the centre will be transferred to Park House on North Circular Road, while administrative staff, currently operating out of a condemned building elsewhere in Dublin, are moved in.

Affected staff have written to Frances Fitzgerald, the minister for children, and Gordon Jeyes, the HSE’s national director of children and family services.