Report highlights ‘shocking’ shortage of special care placements for vulnerable children
A judge has warned of a “tsunami about to reach shore” as a report highlights a shortage of special care placements for vulnerable children.
The latest publication from the Child Law Project (CLP) contains 70 reports, arising out of court hearings attended in the first half of this year by reporters from the project.
One relates to a teenager who, it was alleged, was raped while in the care of Tusla and who was believed to have been sexually trafficked across Ireland.
On one occasion, she was found two hours away from her placement after she made a call at 11pm to her guardian ad litem to say she had no idea where she was.
Although her case had been in court over 10 times, there was no special care bed available for the teenager, who had the cognitive ability of a 10-year-old child.
An accommodation unit was eventually secured for her in Britain.
A judge described her case as “shocking” and “the worst case I have ever come across”.
The volume highlights that three out…
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