‘Dignity’ in care families taking risks, says CEO of Tusla

Fred McBride, the new CEO of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, has said to stop families in the Irish care system taking risks would be to take away their dignity.

“There are risks in everybody’s lives, there is dignity in taking risks, we all take risks everyday. Why on earth would we think that the families that we work with shouldn’t take some risks?

“We take away the risks we take away their dignity. And there’s a bit of education to be done with the media certainly in Ireland.”