Co. Donegal
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, provides a range of universal and targeted services for children, young people and families, including:
Child protection and welfare services
Educational Welfare Services
Psychological Services
Alternative care
Family and Locally-based Community Supports
Early Years Services
Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Services
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, provides a range of universal and targeted services for children, young people and families, including:
- Child protection and welfare services
- Educational Welfare Services
- Psychological Services
- Alternative care
- Family and Locally-based Community Supports
- Early Years Services
- Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Services
Under the Child and Family Act, 2013 the Child and Family Agency is charged with:
- supporting and promoting the development, welfare and protection of children, and the effective functioning of families;
- offering care and protection for children in circumstances where their parents have not been able to, or are unlikely to, provide the care that a child needs. In order to discharge these responsibilities, the Agency is required to maintain and develop the services needed in order to deliver these supports to children and families, and provide certain services for the psychological welfare of children and their families;
- responsibility for ensuring that every child in the State attends school or otherwise receives an education, and for providing education welfare services to support and monitor children’s attendance, participation and retention in education;
- ensuring that the best interests of the child guides all decisions affecting individual children;
- consulting children and families so that they help to shape the agency’s policies and services;
- strengthening interagency co-operation to ensure seamless services responsive to needs;
- undertaking research relating to its functions, and providing information and advice to the Minister regarding those functions; and
- commissioning services relating to the provision of child and family services
- Sligo town and environs
- Sligo - north
- Sligo - south, east and west
- Leitrim - Carrick-on-Shannon and environs
- Leitrim - south
- Leitrim - north
- Service provided at various locations throughout the area covered
- Free
Some small costs may apply.
- People can self-refer / access the service directly (without the need for a referral)
- Parents / guardians can refer
- Through GP
- Through schools
- Through Tusla Child and Family Social Workers
- Through other Tusla services (e.g. Education Welfare Service)
- Through HSE services
- Through other statutory services
- Through other community / voluntary service
Please see Tusla website (www.tusla.ie) for addresses and contact details for offices in the region.
Young people can self-refer if they consider themselves to be at risk or require support in respect of the care that they receive.
- Early years (0-4 years)
- Primary school age (4-12 years approx.)
- Post-primary school age (13-18 years approx.)
- Young adults (18-24 years)
Young adults refers to those who are leaving care or who may require targeted support in caring for their child / children.