My mind is made up,its a definite NO.. see here:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/1023/mary-carberry-thomas-varden.html
On one occasion, he said, the meeting in Naas ended towards 5pm and social workers "couldn't wait to get out the door" because they were finished for the week.
My mind is made up,its a definite NO.. see here:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/1023/mary-carberry-thomas-varden.html
He said he and other family members had been in touch with social services.
On one occasion, he said, the meeting in Naas ended towards 5pm and social workers "couldn't wait to get out the door" because they were finished for the week.
However, he said he had contacted social services about the welfare of his children a number of times a few months before the accident but nothing was done.
In general the Inquiry Team believes that staff did not exercise their statutory authority under the Child Care Act 1991 to protect these children at the earliest possible point.
On a separate note,I am not happy to give any more powers to those who are unable/unwilling/untrained, and/or do not exercise what is already available to them!!4.18.1 The Inquiry Team is satisfied that that there were sufficient risk
indicators in this case to warrant an application being made for a Supervision
Order at a much earlier point. The lack of co-operation from Mr and Mrs A
was apparent as early as December 1996 (see 3.3.2) .
Also bear in mind that one of the massive supporters and financiers of the abusers (parents) in this case is a key figure in the No campaign (and Youth Defence reportedly).
My mind is made up,its a definite NO.. see here:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/1023/mary-carberry-thomas-varden.html
He said he and other family members had been in touch with social services.
On one occasion, he said, the meeting in Naas ended towards 5pm and social workers "couldn't wait to get out the door" because they were finished for the week.
However, he said he had contacted social services about the welfare of his children a number of times a few months before the accident but nothing was done.
Up to now, if you've tried to take children into care you could have certain Catholic groups defending the sanctity of the family as evidenced in the Roscommon case - do we really want to see that again?
My mind is made up,its a definite NO.. see here:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/1023/mary-carberry-thomas-varden.html
2.3.4 Thus it can be seen that over a four year period the County was allocated an additional £1,302.6m, or € 1.653m, resulting in almost 14
additional posts as well as some non-pay developments. Successive first-line managers described service planning processes where needs were identified and bids were made for additional funding to meet those needs, but there remained a sense among staff that Roscommon did not fare as well as
Galway and Mayo.
2.3.5 Regardless of what discrepancies might apply to the distribution of
resources and the overall capacity of the child care service to meet the
population as a whole, the Inquiry Team is satisfied that, in this particular
case, resources, per se, were not an issue. In fact, as is elaborated upon
later, a plethora of services were involved in this family over a period of years.
One caveat is, however, the difficulty in recruiting staff which did have an
impact at critical points in the lifetime of this case. In addition, the Inquiry
Team was advised that on two occasions known to the Inquiry, that is in 2000
and in late 2002, there were other serious child protection concerns in areas
of Roscommon that required a good deal of attention from social workers. At
both of those times there were staff shortages.
Hi firefly,in the Roscommon it was found by the inquiry team that there were in fact enough resources:
If a majority of people voted NO an the ammendment failed would it still be possible for people with similar views to Bean Uí Chribín repeating the 2000 High Court Injunction in similar circumstances?Bean Uí Chribín was involved in a High Court injunction in 2000, which stopped the HSE taking a Roscommon woman’s six children into care.
She supported the woman in court. The mother was later jailed for seven years for neglect. The incident came to be known as the ''Roscommon House of Horrors'' case.
The abuse was allowed to continue for a further four years until the children were finally taken into care in 2004.
yes if they were indeed placed in the care of responsible and loving gaurdians, but look at the amount of children that have died in the states care over the years!
It's not about giving the state more power over parents. It's about redressing the balance between the rights of parents and the rights of children. There are too many children being left in abusive or neglectful situations or being dragged in and out of temporary foster care for their entire childhood, or slipping through cracks in the system, because the rights of their inadequate, dysfunctional or violent parents supercede the right of those children to a safe and secure childhood in the care of responsible and loving guardians.
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