Foster care scandal: Officials still in jobs after abuse claims

Senior health officials who were in place when allegations of savage abuse against disabled children were first raised remain at their posts in the health service, it emerged last night.

Given a failure by the HSE to adequately clarify matters involving the foster home, and a succession of conflicting information, the Government last night announced its intention to establish a statutory Commission of Investigation into the abuse allegations.

HSE bosses will this morning have to account for the failure to sanction those who allowed vulnerable disabled children remain in a foster home in the south-east after serious abuse allegations had been made.