HSE will halt childcare role as Fitzgerald sets up new agency [herald.ie]
- Published: 29 March 2011
THE HSE is to be stripped of its childcare role with the setting up of a new national agency dedicated to child protection.
Children's Minister Frances Fitzgerald said the new agency would strip away the "procrastination, the deception and evasion" that allowed abusers to go unpunished.
Ms Fitzgerald added that the country had been shamed by the neglect and violence meted out to children over the decades.
Launching a consultation with youngsters on a five-year national children's strategy, the minister said work will begin immediately on setting up the new body.
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