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Please contact our Cork office at 021-4250734 for more information.

We are currently looking for foster carers in the Limerick/North Cork area.  Please contact our Cork office for further information.

Children and young people in the “looked-after” sector are frequently dealing with issues related to complex trauma.

This needs to be understood and held by those seeking to work therapeutically with the children and young people, and in working with the adults who care for them.

The Child and Family Agency has launched their new website : www.tusla.ie

The Child and Family Agency was established on the 1st January 2014 and is now the dedicated State agency responsible for improving wellbeing and outcomes for children. It represents the most comprehensive reform of child protection, early intervention and family support services ever undertaken in Ireland. It is an ambitious move which brings together some 4,000 staff and an operational budget of over €600m.

A new state body to protect children has been billed as a ferocious corporate parent demanding the best for the country's youngsters.

The Child and Family Agency will takeover the role of three separate bodies to improve services for children, which the Government says is the most effective response to repeated and tragic failings of the past.

It will have 4,000 staff, a budget of 609 million euro and a national network of 106 community based family resource centres.

Five Rivers Fostering will be holding their next training course for foster care applicants from 21-23 February in Cork.  If you are interested in becoming a foster carer please contact our Dublin or Cork office!

Five Rivers are delighted to announce that we will be running workshops, in partnership with EPIC, in Cork, Dublin and Carlow between January and April 2014.

A smartphone app that will send out an immediate alert when a child goes missing has been launched.

The app is designed to be of use in a country where more than half the population now own a smartphone.

The alert will include a picture of the missing child, age, nationality and other distinguishing features along with information on where the child was last seen.

Parents will be able to upload details about their own children and release them if their child ever goes missing and if there is a reasonable belief that the child is in danger.