Operators of several International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) centres inspected by the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) in recent months were unable to provide evidence of ...

The other 13 centres inspected by HIQA were found to have a generally good level of compliance with the regulations and ...

Inspectors of a residential centre for children with intellectual disabilities informed child and family agency Tusla of safeguarding concerns after a child was removed from a room in an ...

Garda vetting of staff in International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) was not well managed across a number of centres inspected by the independent watchdog, the Health Information and ...

An inspection of a disability service by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) found the provider failed to protect its residents from "all forms of abuse". One resident alleged that ...

HIQA, the health watchdog, received nearly 1,500 unsolicited complaints and concerns regarding services for children, older people, and people with disabilities last year. The reports from service ...

THE Government has been urged to urgently overhaul regulation of private nursing homes following a shocking exposé. Both are run by Ireland’s top private nursing home provider Emeis Ireland, who have ...

The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) has found non-compliance regarding food as well as safeguarding and protection in some of nine International Protection Accommodation centres, ...

Inspectors who visited a disability centre run by a charity for the deaf found safeguarding concerns for residents, according to a new report. The report of the centre run by the National Association ...

Four children went missing for 15 days from a Dublin direct provision centre after their parent was hospitalised, an inspection report revealed yesterday. The inspectors said that child safeguarding ...

There are issues that should be examined in the regulatory approach of the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) to ensure the welfare of elderly people in nursing homes, Taoiseach Micheál ...