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Aftercare data should highlight inequity
- Press Release
- November 8, 2011
EPIC welcomes the announcement that data collected by the State on young people who leave care at the age of 18 but are in receipt of aftercare services will be available shortly.[1] Up to date, reliable, and relevant data will help to ensure tha...
Aftercare data should highlight inequity
- Press Release
- November 8, 2011
EPIC welcomes the announcement that data collected by the State on young people who leave care at the age of 18 but are in receipt of aftercare services will be available shortly.[1] Up to date, reliable, and relevant data will help to ensure tha...
‘We must learn from these tragic deaths’
- Press Release
- October 18, 2011
EPIC (formerly the Irish Association of Young people in Care) welcomes the publication of today’s reports published by the HSE on the deaths and serious incidents of children in care. EPIC would like to offer its sympathies and condolences with t...
Saving Childhood Group Welcomes Children First: National Guidance
- Press Release
- July 15, 2011
“This is just the start of the process. There is still more to do.”
Saving Childhood Group Welcomes Children First: National Guidance
The Saving Childhood group has welcomed the publication of Children First: National Guidance for the Protection a...
Children First: Children will now have more of a fighting chance
- Press Release
- July 15, 2011
EPIC warmly welcomes the new Children First Guidance published today. Protecting children, now more than ever, needs to be the collective responsibility of all. The guidance clearly articulates that everyone in society has a responsibility to ac...
Cloyne Report: Yet Again Children Have Been Failed
- Press Release
- July 13, 2011
Yet Again Children Have Been Failed. Cloyne Report Reinforces Need For Children First To Be Put on Statutory Footing and For Accountability.
This is the fourth report on abuse in the Catholic Church. This report is different because it deals wi...
HIQA follow up report on Foster Care still damning
- Press Release
- July 5, 2011
The recent publication by HIQA of the Follow-up Inspection of the HSE Fostering Service in Dublin North West illustrates that foster carers and children in foster care continue to be let down in terms of the supports and services they should have ...
Stability is key for young people in care
- Press Release
- June 17, 2011
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Frances Fitzgerald TD to launch EPIC and EPIC Research findings on the outcomes for young people leaving care.
WHEN: 11.00am Friday 17th June 2011
WHERE: Arbitration Centre, Bar Council of Ireland, Distiller...
Continuing failures in foster care services
- Press Release
- June 10, 2011
The Irish Association of Young People in Care (IAYPIC) welcomes the publication today of the independent Inspection Report on the implementation of national recommendations on HSE foster care services by the Health Information and Quality Authorit...
Opportunity for Dail to give children in care right to quality aftercare
- Press Release
- January 10, 2011
OPPORTUNITY NOW FOR DAIL TO GIVE CHILDREN IN CARE A RIGHT TO QUALITY AFTERCARE SERVICES
A number of leading child care organisations today called on the opposition parties to vote against the Child Care (Amendment) Bill in the Dail unless the Go...
