Social care staff ‘sexually, physically assaulted’

Social care workers in a residential centre are suffering from repeated physical and sexual assaults by teenagers with challenging behaviour, a health union has claimed.

Social care staff ‘sexually, physically assaulted’

It has emerged that social care workers in a Limerick residential centre are going out sick to avoid the prospect of being subjected to even more abuse from children in care, who have escaped major sanction.

The Limerick Health and Welfare Branch of Impact tabled a number of motions at a recent Impact conference in Ennis, Co Clare, concerning the repeated assault of social care workers in residential care centres in Limerick run by the child and family agency Tusla.

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