For children’s sake, Harney should stop playing political hide-and-seek

“AS a childcare manager ... I was tasked with receiving all notifications of suspected child abuse and ensuring appropriate action.

However, the social work service had all the information pertaining to allegations on a database called the Social Work Information System. As childcare manager I was prevented from gaining access to that system. Therefore I had no access to check the effectiveness of practice.”

That couple of sentences are in the Ombudsman for Children’s Report into the operation of Children First within our health system. Children First is the set of national guidelines for the protection and welfare of children. There is absolutely no difficulty about following them on paper and there should be no difficulty in the wide earthly world about implementing them.