Life after Covid: Without urgent support, vulnerable children face 'catastrophic' outcomes

Funding for local organisations which are doing vital work ought not be seen as discretionary spending, according to Ursula Kilkelly, head of the College of Business and Law at UCC, and chair of Oberstown children's detention centre. Picture: Gareth Chaney Collins

The Government has been advised to urgently invest in supports for vulnerable young people to prevent “catastrophic” outcomes for some children post-Covid.

Professor Ursula Kilkelly, head of the College of Business and Law at UCC, is the chair of the board of management of Oberstown Children Detention Campus, and contributed to the Government’s recently-published Youth Justice Strategy 2021-2027. She said that supporting vulnerable young people now is critical.