Concern for the safety and welfare of children in Direct Provision has led the Ombudsman for Children to submit a special report to the Houses of the Oireachtas due to inaction by Government to implement recommendations previously proposed.
It is the first time the Ombudsman for Children's Office has used its power to lay a report down in this manner since it was established 20 years ago.
Based on the average number of international protection applications over the previous ten years, the White Paper on ending Direct Provision originally envisaged 3,500 new international protection arrivals per year. "This puts the White Paper vision of own-door and self-contained housing out of reach for IP families, who are - in many cases - already encountering private vendor, community, and local authority, resistance to their presence", he has said.
This involves a vulnerability assessment within 30 days of an application for international protection being lodged on their behalf. These range from complaints about the impact of living conditions, food quality and centre rules on children’s health and wellbeing to concerns about how a transfer was administered, communicated, or has affected a child’s access to education and healthcare.
A Cabinet memo will go to Government"in the coming week" setting out a revised implementation approach, according to the Department. When it comes to standards within accommodation centres, it said IPAS had taken steps to support adherence to the national standards for accommodation offered to people in the protection process through its"arrangements" with accommodation centres.
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