Tusla says it's an offence to run an unregistered children’s home, but it places children in them anyways
So how does it square the circle?
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The plans submitted for the 131-home development did not include space for a new creche – an issue An Bord Pleanála has flagged with the developer.
It would make financial sense for after-school clubs to turn away children of non-working parents, says Austin Campbell of the Robert Emmet CDP. But “we don’t want to leave them behind. So we lose money.”
“The problem can, realistically, only be resolved by state intervention,” writes a UCD political-economy lecturer.