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Child Protection and Welfare Practice Handbook
designated liaison persons (non-HSE
services)
definition of, 6
role and responsibilities, 28–29
Designated Officers, An Garda Síochána
definition of, 6
Designated Officers, HSE Children and
Family Services
definition of, 6
role and responsibilities, 26–28
designated persons, HSE Children and
Family Services
responsibilities of, 7, 25–26, 53–54
disability
intellectual disability in children,
77–80
intellectual disability in parents/
carers, 74–76
discharge from hospital, 56
disclosures
protected disclosure by HSE
employees, 130
retrospective disclosures by adults,
58, 146
domestic violence, 61–67
drugs
exposure of newborn child to, 19
parental misuse of, 71–73
Duty Social Worker (team), HSE Children
and Family Services, 8, 27, 37, 38, 44
E
early years children, risk factors in, 60
eligibility criteria of reported concern, 8
emergencies, protection of children in
by HSE and An Garda Síochána, 148
immediate danger to child, contact
Gardaí, 28, 34
removal of child to safety by Gardaí,
55, 147
Emergency Care Order, 55, 120, 147–48
emotional abuse, definition of, 10
enquiry, preliminary, 8, 37
Environmental Health Officers (HSE), 26
extra-familial abuse, 55, 57, 146
F
fabricated/induced illness, 12
families
definition of ‘family’, 7
engaging with, 44–45
risk factors in child protection, 59
uncooperative or ‘hard to engage’,
82–85
unknown male partners associated
with family, 80–82
See also extra-familial abuse; intrafamilial
abuse; parents/carers
Family Law Act 1995, 90
Family Support Coordinators (HSE), 26
Family Support Plan, 47
Family Support Workers (HSE), 26
Family Welfare Conference, 7, 57, 151
fathers/male partners, working with, 111–12
female genital mutilation, 90–91
file management, 116
forced marriage. See marriage, forced
foster care, private, 120
Freedom of Information Act, 36
front-line practice, vii, viii
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Garda Síochána, An
attendance at Strategy Meeting, 9, 47
Designated Officers, 6
emergency action, 28, 34
interagency cooperation, 55, 146
joint Garda/HSE action, 54–56
joint specialist interviewing with HSE,
46
notification of abuse/neglect to HSE,
55
removal of child to safety, 55,
147–48
General Practitioner, recommended role
at Child Protection Conference, 51
Guardianship of Infants Act 1964, 150
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harm
definition of, 7
ongoing risk of significant harm, 47
threshold of significant harm, 7, 10