Let’s Get It Right! A Rights-Based Vision for Children in Care

A new report from the Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) sheds light on the full extent of the crisis across Ireland’s care system for children, revealing a system that is consistently underfunded and in which some of the most profound breaches of their rights occur. Let’s Get it Right- a rights-based vision for children in care highlights how the system is not currently operating in the best interests of all children, despite the best efforts of staff in the sector. However, the OCO believes there is now a real opportunity to make a once in a generational change to our care system with the development of the Government’s first ever National Alternative Care Plan and a review of the 25-year-old legislation underpinning child protection in Ireland. The OCO report makes several recommendations across eight key areas for children in care, which it hopes will be reflected in the Government’s plans due later this year.

Read the full report in the link below.

 

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