Speech by Frances Fitzgerald, TD, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs: Launch of Children First: National Guidance for the Protection and Welfare of Children, 2011 [merrionstreet.ie]
- Published: 15 July 2011
I would like to welcome Mr Gordon Jeyes, National Director, Children and Family Services, HSE and Mr Derek Byrne, Assistant Commissioner, National Support Services and acknowledge their support in the development of this guidance.
I look forward to their continued support and cooperation in the future. I would also like to introduce Mr. Jim Breslin, who was recently appointed to the post of Secretary General of my Department.
For all of us this has been a week that we would love to forget, but must always remember.
It was a week where problems of the past were proven to survive in the present.
It was a week where we learned that shame alone does not change behaviour.
The Cloyne report showed us that child abuse and endangerment is not something that happened back in the 50’s or 60’s or 70’s or 80’s.
Cloyne showed us that child abuse and endangerment is happening today.
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