Father can challenge level of access to his ‘emotionally traumatised’ son

A father has been given permission by the High Court to challenge his level of access and information he is being provided about one of his children who is currently in care.

The man has also questioned the quality of care currently being provided by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency to his “emotionally traumatised” son.

The father has claimed the boy, who is 12 years old, has absconded from several care placements and been found wandering the streets of their home town in the company of “undesirables”. The boy also has a history of self harm.