This brief article will outline the path to the provision of an explicit entitlement to aftercare in Ireland.

This article from the Irish Times refers to a recent report from the Irish legislature (Oireachtas) which calls on the police (Gardaí) and social workers to form specialist child protection units to address gaps in services for out-of-hours social work services, and cites other recommendations from the Report on the Provision of Foster Care Services in Ireland.

This article, with accompanying short video documentary, from the New York Times tells an in-depth and harrowing story of an amateur historian, Catherine Corless, seeking to learn about the history of a "mother and baby home" run by Bon Secours nuns in the town of Tuam, Ireland, and the story of mistreatment, poor conditions, trafficking, and unmarked graves she uncovered. 

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Ireland's Health Information and Standards Directorate has launched a public consultation on the Draft National Standards on Children's Residential Care. Once finalized, the Standards will provide a framework for the ongoing development of child-centred and effective services for children living in residential care centres. This document contains the preceding Draft Standards, eligible for feedback through 02 November 2017. 

Improvements to Ireland's Child and Family Agency Tusla’s foster care system - including proper checks, increased social workers and staff, and out-of-hours telephone and emergency support - will be implemented later this year. 

A nine-year-old boy was returned to residential care after his foster family did not receive the additional psychological supports requested, revealing strain on social workers and lack of support for foster carers and children in care. 

Ireland child protection services takes on a 'paradigm shift' to working with children and families, predicting fewer children in the care system, empowered parents, and safer children. 

Suas is seeking a CEO to work with the Board and Management Team of Suas to implement the strategic goals and objectives of the organisation agreed by the Board.

Newstalk reports Tusla’s Dublin South Central foster care service failed to meet all HIQA standards.