Parents 'unable to cope' volunteering teens into care system

Last week, 41% of young people in emergency care were there because 'there was a breakdown in their home arrangement'.

Young people are entering state care for the first time in their late teens because their parents are unable to cope, the interim head of Tusla has said.

The child and family agency is seeing a “significant increase” in the number of teenagers aged between 16 and 18 who were never in the care system but whose families are now volunteering them into care "because they are unable to cope”.