One case reveals difficulties in finding a residential placement for a disturbed young boy who was too young for a special care placement.
Mental health issues, care of unaccompanied minors and domestic violence all feature in the latest reports from the Child Care Law Reporting project.
This new volume of 53 cases highlights the difficulty in obtaining appropriate treatment for them.
A new volume of 53 case reports are published this morning which highlight cases of children with serious mental health difficulties & the prevalence of domestic violence as a factor in child protection cases. Read them at https://t.co/FS03idmOAl #CCLRP
— Child Law Project (@ChildLawProject) June 8, 2021
Concerns about the risk domestic violence poses to children is mentioned in six of these cases, which is over 10 percent of the total.
One case reveals difficulties in finding a residential placement for a disturbed young boy who was too young for a special care placement.
Some positives saw a boy who spent 11 years in care preparing to sit his Leaving Cert and a young mother reunified with her baby following the discharge of a supervision order.
Maria Corbett is Deputy Director of the Childcare Law Reporting Project.
She joined Eoin Beatty on Tuesday's edition of Kildare Today.
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