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arrangements are visited weekly by a social worker or delegated person to have their voice heard and check on the care being provided. Tusla is working with the providers of special emergency arrangements with a view to converting them into registered and regulated service providers, thus making them … matters. The HSE published an independent review of its policies and procedures last year. This has led to the introduction of a chief social worker in the HSE for the first time, who is driving the implementation of the recommendations in this report. There has also been strong

Roma children have poorer educational outcomes than those of the general population. Additional funding was secured to increase the number of community link workers and as part of the Traveller and Roma strategy, we will work in several schools and focus on fostering greater engagement with Traveller … working or not working and what else we need to do. This brings together my Department, the Departments of children and social protection and many others as well. In my first Dáil contribution as Minister for education, I highlighted the significant increase in absenteeism in our schools, particularly

Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health regarding the situation where an individual is in the process of being registered with CORU as a social care worker, whether, if they were to take up part time employment in a different field of work, it would affect their