Tusla inspectors found problems with the use of physical restraint in seven children’s homes
In two cases, inspectors found that staff were using restraint to try to manage children’s behaviour, and one of those children was restrained 78 times.
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Will You Draw Your Dublin Neighbourhood for Us?
This online tool lets you map your area’s boundaries, save your version, and see what others have drawn for the same area.
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We recently ran an article, “In Dublin, a Neighbourhood Boundary Is Sometimes More a Feeling Then a Line”, which made us wonder: could we draw the boundaries of our own areas – could our readers?
In this month’s print edition, we included maps and asked people to give it a try and send us their efforts, which we posted in a Twitter thread. Now, Emmet Ó Briain and CivicTech.ie have teamed up to bring the game properly online. Give it a try here!
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