Grim Reading from Ireland

The Republic of Ireland’s Children’s Minister, Francis Fitzgerald, has said that a report into the deaths of children known to the Health Services Executive, shows that they had been failed. She says that it is a disgrace that missed interventions have resulted in lost childhoods and child deaths.

The report, by Dr Geoffrey Shannon and Norah Gibbons runs to nearly 500 pages and can be downloaded at:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0620/report-says-deaths-of-children-in-care-preventable.html