Social workers 'targeted' in online abuse

Social workers are being targeted for abuse on social media, an Oireachtas committee was told.

The Irish Association of Social Workers has said it is aware of some of its members being targeted for online threats and abuse. 

The representative body was speaking after the chief executive officer of the Child and Family Agency, Bernard Gloster, told an Oireachtas committee this week that there had been an increase in the number of incidents of its staff being targeted.