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A HIQA INVESTIGATION into foster services in the Cork area has found widespread use by Tusla of unvetted foster families.
As part of its 2017 monitoring programme, HIQA is conducting thematic inspections across all 17 Tusla service areas.
The report published today concerns a follow-up inspection of the Cork service area.
The service was previously inspected by HIQA in February 2017. That report slammed the service as not having “sufficient oversight and monitoring”.
At that time, inspectors identified a number of serious risks and of the eight standards inspected against, there were five major non-compliances.
HIQA returned to the Cork service area in August 2017 to assess whether the assurances and actions provided by Tusla had been implemented. It found that the service was in major non-compliance with all four standards assessed.
While the timeframe had not yet been reached for some of the actions from the February inspection, actions which were to be immediately implemented in order to reduce the risks had not been implemented in a timely manner
The HIQA report found that 13 cases were deemed serious enough to be escalated to the child care manager to address the safeguarding risks and concerns arising from them.
There remained significant delays in the commencement and completion of assessments of relative carers with whom children were placed.
“While 33 relative carers had now been assigned a link social worker, there remained 42 relative carers without an allocated link social worker, despite assurances provided in February 2017 that this action would be taken as a matter of priority. Furthermore, 27 relative carers still did not have Garda Síochána vetting and 82 foster carers did not have up-to-date Garda vetting.”
HIQA has written to the COO of Tusla about the risks that were identified. A response has been received, HIQA says, but a further update will be requested this month.
god almighty, more of it….
Work a bit harder, make more money and you won’t have to worry about household bills. It’s only the nations laziness that has them complaining about stuff like this!
@Tom I work hard for a set wage aka a salary, my workload has increased my wage lowered due to taxes and levies, every single price increase on needful items and services hits an already empty pocket. I’m far from lazy but these increases will mean that we will have decide on putting fuel into the car to travel to work or fuel for heating our house to reduce risk of sickness.
@something…and more I suspect, to come. Coping classes are going to become the collapsed classes. No end to this gouging of ordinary people at every opportunity.
Tom works for airtricty I’d say!
toms a troll
Catherine…u now have 208 signatures after a few months in the go…there is something wrong here…maybe instead of just giving out on the page, offer solutions!!!
Don’t feed Tom, he is just talking utter nonsense. Moron.
We need to stop this! If i organise a protest over corrupt annual price fixing, will you attend?
Yes 100% I’ll be there. It’s time we the people took a stand…. We’ve been pushed around for too long now, time to push back I say.
Keep us posted
Creamy behind you 100% this lot won’t be happy until their are all out riots on the streets
Yes 100% behind you. Time for us to step up!
100% creamy…just give me a time and place. This is getting out of control…we’re cash fodder to every corporate assh**e in this country lead by the government. Enough is enough..
That depends! Are your Hamstrings really Creamy? I’d be a little nervous to be honest ;-)
@johnny, that gave me a good chuckle :-) thanks
Oh there’s a surprise…..yes quick enough to raise the prices….. Now If only they were that fast with their customer service and giving you a copy of your invoice.
If you think that’s bad expect 1000% price increases over the next few years with ECB and Federal reserve printing. Transfer of wealth from the sheeple to Goldman etc backed by our superstate masters including Barroso.
Yip. Rothschilds are making a killing.
Wait for the invasion of Iran, then you will see one hell of a price rise
Sorry, you said sheeple so unfortunately your opinion is invalid.
http://www.change.org/petitions/supporting-the-irish-nation-step-down-from-government
*this country needs to be rid of these fools in Government who are making the citizens of Ireland pay for the banks, bondholders and the elected government,s €80 Billion Debt.
-This is not fair and it is not right, people were bullied and lied to vote in the way that was “wanted”.
I’m sick to death of hearing about the sick, the elderly and the people who have already been broken down get stamped on even more. whilst these “leaders” have the audacity to tell us that they can’t take a paycut because it would be too much. They earn over €150,000 a year, yet most of the Irish citizens live averagely on €35,000 a year.
- The Government have their own “expenses” account which they like to use a LOT!. Enda Kenny €25,000: in one night: in one pub.
- that kind of money would sort some people for life.
And that’s not even the tip of the Iceberg!!
http://www.change.org/petitions/supporting-the-irish-nation-step-down-from-government @@EndTheEU
#Forward2012
Cut down on electric & gas usages , its the only way to beat these increases.
Sure they’ll just increase it more to keep the profits up.
@felix haha yeah they have everyone by the balls & they know it.
You can cut down on your usage but I’m sure they will find a way to charge you for under usage or something. We just can’t win!!!!
yeah there is a way to win, dont vote for right wing parties.
Jennifer…that’s just stupid
seems like they all do this every October the last few years, and they they only match each other upwardly to the nearest cent, We are all framed to the nearest cent too
price fixing is out of controll, We may as well not have a government, they do not serve people.
@slapandstick are you only figuring that out now?
Definite cartel. Absolute joke at this stage.
Ah the energy sector. What’s that old saying? If it look s like a cartel and acts like a cartel …….
When airtricity came to the market along with esb taking on gas and bord gais taking on electricity….I thought great, finally some competition in Ireland…but it’s the same old thing…it just depresses me.
How about we all leave our wages with the government and just get ration books and food vouchers. That would sort everything
Yeah then we could all move to camps where the Government could supply us with nice wooden huts and barb wire fences for our protection.
There is a huge global demand for wind and it is driving up the price.
Wind energy is a waste of time. Take away the subsidies and it is economically absurd.
I didn’t realise wind turbines produced gas. The electricity in Ireland is also mainly produced by gas. Gas price goes up = electricity price in Ireland goes up. Having wind power would actually reduce the reliance on world gas prices. [http://www.eirgrid.com/media/Generation%20Adequacy%20Report%202010-2016.pdf]
They do in Berlin! They use turbines to make hydrogen when electrical demand is low which in turn is burned in a chp to provide electricity and heat for district heating. O those crazy Germans!
Blame the greens when they were in goverenment,all they ever did was put carbon taxes on fuel ,there gone but the taxes still here useless shower.I do cut back but with small kids you have to have warm house.
Check out this cost of living comparison between the Republic of Ireland and Finland.
http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_result.jsp?country1=Finland&country2=Ireland
The cost of monthly utilities are WAY cheaper in Finland than in the Republic of Ireland.
Clearly foul play is going on in these latest price increases by utility providers.
I for one believe fervently Tesla cracked zero point energy but the US Government and corporations have kept his patents hidden. Wardenclyffe Tower. Free Energy. Could not figure out how to meter it.
wukin fankers!
Yes! a protest!Bring it on, Creamy! When and where? Dail Eireann or Bord Gais?
NOOOOO…How will I afford to stay warm this winter …….:(((
Hot water bottle…
Bonkers.ie, let your feet do the talking!
A good solid fuel heating system will heat your house for a fraction of oil gas is or electricity.
Not so sure on that mate .
I Heat a 4 bed semi from an inset stove with a heatbox installed above it, pushing heated air directly to all upstairs rooms.
In mid winter is uses 3 euro of turf a day for about 12 hours of heating
fair play to you Mike– what is the output of the system? sounds really good. I have solid fuel range and a condenser boiler (99% efficient) .Trying to heat 14 rads, the solid fuel systems wouldn’t have a look in with the oil boiler.
Hi Paurice.
with most heating systems you convert heat to water, then pump the water to the rads, then convert the heat from the water to the rads and from the rads to the room. I believe you lose about 10% per conversation and there is 3 concessions in a standard heating system. with a heat box the hot air is transferred directly from the stove to the rooms via insulated pipes.
Sounds interesting. Can’t afford to change my central hearing system but sounds like its worth looking at.. Be nice not to have to worry about ever increasing oil prices.
What happened – did the price of wind go up?
this is not a cartel,,a bunch of us ceos need a holiday is all…bonus time soon.
Enda’s low cost economy takes another step forward. Next he will be telling us that house hold tax, water rates, charges for septic tanks, lower hospital cover, reduced children’s allowance, reduced fuel allowances for the elderly are good for us. Anyone ever going to stand up and say stop?
As I said last week on the Bord Gas article, don’t be forgetting about the inevitable VAT increase that will surely come in Budget ’13 to go on top of that. Probably about 2%.
Get making your draft excluders now people, easily done with tights and old rags ;) hot water bottles, fleeces,slipper socks, blankets etc going for a song now in penny’s!! Would rather walk around my house like the Michelin man than give those robbing b@stards more money than necessary! You have options, use them!
I was just about to ask my boss for a pay-rise.. Wish me best of luck
Jeez i dont know how much worse this country is going to get between increases here and there how can people keep on going , ive a family earn s basic wage and barely getting by month to month its the eldery people i worry about when the cold snap comes in they will be afraid to put gas om to keep them warm because they are afraid of the bill they will get . Everything seems to be going up apart from peoples wages hmmm something not right there .
just get the pre-pay meters in its free doesn’t cost half as much as any of those companies on electricity
I moved to airtricity in December last year & signed up to a 2 year contract and when the ESB increased theirs last week I rang airtricity to make sure it was a fixed price contract i signed up to, and she confirmed it is. so I won’t be affected by this increase yet, although the 2nd year of the contract the rate does go up slightly, but will still be under the new rate.
I live in Northern Ireland and have signed up to Airtricity for my electricity recently …..was with Phoenix Gas which has been taken over by Airtricity ….are these price increases applicable up here ….Balex!!!
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