Service provider for disabled faced with possible closure to apply to register new campus

One of the larger service providers in the State for people with a disability, which faced the possible closure of some of its centres over serious concerns for residents, will now apply to register its newly reconfigured campus after a positive inspection report by health watchdog HIQA.

There had been "significant concerns" about the centres operated at the Palmerstown campus in Dublin by Stewarts Care Ltd, to the extent where statutory notices of proposal to cancel the registration of two of the six designated centres were issued in June 2017, and similar statutory notices issued in relation to the remaining four centres on the campus in August of the same year.