No department guidelines in train for school trips to overseas orphanages

Comhlámh points to international research highlighting how children who grow up in orphanage care typically have lower literacy and numeracy levels and fewer educational attainments than their peers. File photo

The Department of Education has no plans to develop guidelines for school trips that include guidance on not visiting orphanages, despite updated travel advice. 

As previously reported by the Irish Examiner, Irish aid organisation Comhlámh had called on the department to develop child-safe guidelines for school trips, including guidance not to visit orphanages.