Information and Resources

HSE Child Protection and Welfare Policy

HSE Child Protection and Welfare Policy

Information sheets

HSE Staff

• Roles and Responsibilities of HSE Staff under Children First and the HSE Child Protection and Welfare Policy 

• Information for Mandated Persons

• Roles and Responsibilities of Designated Officers (Under the Protections for Persons Reporting Child Abuse Act 1998)

• HSE Procedure for Reporting Child Protection and Welfare Concerns 

• Children First Awareness Poster for Staff

HSE Funded Agencies

• Information for HSE Funded Agencies on the Implementation of and Compliance with Children First

• Children First Implementation and Compliance Checklist for HSE Funded Agencies

• Section 38 & Section 39 Non-Acute/Community Service Arrangement Children First Compliance Finalised Changes 2019

HSE Contracted Services / GPs

• Roles and Responsibilities of HSE Contracted Services under Children First

• Children First Implementation and Compliance Checklist for HSE Contracted Services

General Public

• Information for Parents, Guardians and the General Public the public on the HSE’s responsibilities under Children First 

Children and Young People

• Information for Children on being safe and asking for help

Additional Information

• Information Sheet about Reasonable Grounds for Concern

• Video Module on Reasonable Grounds for Concern (6 minutes)

Additional Resources

Children First Act 2015

Tús Áite do Leanaí 2017

Children First National Guidance 2017   

HSE (Corporate) Child Safeguarding Statement

FnaSS (Corporáideach) Ráiteas um chumhdach leanaí

Children First Awareness Poster for Staff

Tusla's Children First Publications and Forms               

Child Protection and Welfare Practice Handbook (HSE, 2011)

Child Protection and Welfare Practice Handbook 2 (Tusla, 2018)

Legislation

Child and Family Agency Act 2013

Children and Family Relationships Act 2015

Children Act 1997 and 2001

Children (Amendment) Act 2015

Child Care Act 1991 and Child Care (Amendment) Acts 2007, 2011, 2013 and 2015

Children First Act 2015

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2006

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences)(Amendment) Act 2007

Criminal Justice Act 2006 (Reckless endangerment)

Criminal Justice (Withholding of Information) Act 2012

Criminal Justice (Female Genital Mutilation) Act 2012

Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003

Domestic Violence Act 1996 and Domestic Violence (Amendment) Act 2002

Education Act 1998

Equal Status Acts 2000 and 2012

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 1997, 2003, 2014

Health Act 2004

National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012

Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997

Ombudsman for Children Act 2002

Protected Disclosures Act 2014

Protection of Children (Hague Convention) Act 2000

Protection of Persons Reporting Abuse Act 1998

Useful Links

The Department of Health

The Department of Children and Youth Affairs

The Child and Family Agency