ISPCC chief urges homes to prove care system can be trusted
of foster families’ suitability are not happening in a timely fashion.
Children have been placed in families without proper assessments.
In some areas, reviews of foster care placements are not happening in a timely fashion, or at all. There has been a lack of supervision and poor support of foster carers noted in many of the services inspected.
The ongoing breaches of standards in foster care must be addressed.
It is the right of every child in the care of the State to be protected.
The ISPCC is concerned at reports of ongoing child safeguarding issues ISPCC CHIEF GRAINIA LONG YESTERDAY