Calls for safeguarding legislation to avoid repeat of ‘Grace’

Fergus Finlay, the former CEO of children’s charity Barnardo’s, has described the final report on the so-called “Grace” case as “disgraceful”.

Speaking on RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland Mr Finlay said that it was not correct to say in the report that no evidence of abuse was found. “They chose not to believe the evidence of abuse. There was overwhelming evidence of abuse, which they chose to dismiss.

“I can’t understand it. I cannot understand how after all these years, all this money, all this investment, they’ve been allowed to get away with something that is almost illiterate, it’s so hard to read, it is so impenetrable.

“I’m getting angry now, and I just find the terrible injustice that was done to Grace and some of the other kids that I know, the terrible injustice has been compounded a thousand times by the incompetence of this effort.”

Mr Finlay said that social workers and parents had found evidence and had made “very, very specific” complaints. There…

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