THE DEPARTMENT OF Children has said it does not know the identity of the 37 childcare facilities which Tusla has identified where critical l...

The women at the centre of the St Patrick's Guild baby mix-up scandal are seeking court approval to bring lawsuits against the former ad...

Social media has changed the landscape in terms of adopted people tracing their birth relatives to such an extent that service providers her...

The recent decision by the World Health Organisation to recognise parental alienation puts the spotlight on a contentious concept that is li...

The new amendment would involve the state giving birth parents six months to come forward and object to a disclosure of information about th...

The Catholic parents of a child in foster care would not consent to her attending a Church of Ireland school, the latest issue of the Child ...

Family law cases are the "the poor relation" in the justice system with an urgent need for more district court judges. The lates...

Adopted Kathleen Fraser-Jackson’s search for her birth mother has proved to be a life transforming experience. More >>  Adopted woma...

AN Irish great-great-grandmother has been reunited with her daughter more than six decades after she was forced to give her up for adoption ...

Tusla has acknowledged that child protective services failed to keep safe three children who were raped while in foster care in Galway. Th...

A woman has claimed before the High Court she was coerced into having her baby daughter adopted nearly 40 years ago when she was 16 years ...

There were 40 substantiated child protection and welfare concerns made against foster carers last year, the Child and Family Agency has reve...

IRELAND’S FAMILY LAW system is creating a situation where parents can be more focused on winning than on what their children want, an Oireac...

International research shows that children and young people with care experience are often over-represented within the criminal justice sys...

A private "for profit" company funded by Tusla to provide foster care to 15 children was found to have major failings in meeting p...

A judge has directed that footage taken by a mother of the events surrounding her seven-month-old baby girl being brought into care by the a...

A HSE care worker who also fostered children told a court a child sexual abuse allegation, which he denied, had a "catastrophic" i...

A pre-school boy and his younger sibling were removed from their foster carer by the child and family agency amid fears he may have been sex...

St Patrick’s Guild (Incorporated) gave notice of its intention to be wound up via a voluntary liquidation on December 17 last. Anthony Weldo...

A woman who was the foster mother of a baby with serious health issues has had her application for judicial review dismissed in the High Cou...