The Child and Family agency has said it will respond to new figures which show the number of cases of retrospective abuse awaiting allocation to a social worker has overtaken the number of cases that have been allocated. The number of monthly referrals of such cases peaked in January at 321, and in February the number of open cases of retrospective abuse stood at 2,824. READ MORE Tánaiste insists Irish fishermen have legal right to fish at Rockall"Tusla is in the process of developing a new Child Abuse Substantiation Procedure (CASP) to replace Tusla’s 2014 Policy. Planning for the implementation of the new procedure is taking place, including review of resources and structures dealing with child abuse, including retrospective referrals." While the number of medium and high priority cases awaiting allocation has remained relatively static over the past year, there has been a steady increase in the number of low priority cases awaiting allocation in the same period, from 891 cases in February last year to 2,126 in February this year.

Source: Irish Examiner June 10, 2019 15:00 UTC