A drive is on to recruit at least 200 new foster carers in Northern Ireland over the next year alone in order to provide more children in care with the stable homes they need.

Janaina Meneghal uncovers the story of the sexual harassment of a Brazilian childminder looking for work in Ireland

More money is to be made available for the community and voluntary sector to go towards advocacy and dementia carers’ support services, the Province’s Health Minister has revealed.

PATIENTS could be faced with more industrial unrest in the health service as nurses yesterday warned they may go on all-out strike over pay demands.

The prevention, treatment and care of cancer will come under the spotlight at a major health conference in Dublin today.

A 15 -year-old boy arrested in connection with a gun and petrol bomb attack on a home in Dublin in March was today remanded on bail after a court heard that a detention centre did not have a space to hold him.

Age Action Ireland is warning that a large number of nursing homes around the country will need to make extensive improvements in order to comply with new regulations.

PSYCHIATRIC nurses have warned that they plan this week to significantly increase their industrial action, which has shut wards and curtailed services all over the country .

A British couple whose three young children were taken into care in Portugal after the pair allegedly drank themselves into a stupor could face a social services investigation when they return home, it emerged yesterday.

The Garda Representative Association has called for the setting-up of an out-of-hours service for the care and welfare of vulnerable children.