Trust between families and medics 'inevitably affected' following autism revelations

According to 'RTÉ Investigates', the Department of Health has been using confidential information to build dossiers on children with autism who were involved in legal actions against the State. File picture: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

A group representing families of children with special educational needs has called on the Medical Council to investigate whether there were possible breaches of confidentiality that led to the compilation of dossiers within the Department of Children.

The DCA Warriors, a group with more than 27,000 members, said the revelations, as revealed by RTÉ Investigates last week, would "inevitably affect the necessary trust that families place in their clinicians".