Hospital wards ‘are being used to house children in care’

Hospital wards are being used to house children at risk who are taken into care when Tusla is unable to find alternative safe lodgings in the community, the annual delegate conference of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation will hear today.

Nurses who are highlighting the practice will call on conference to inform the HSE of this “frequent occurrence” and the “negative impact” it has on a child requiring a place of safety.