Resident jumped from upstairs bedroom window at Galway disability centre, Hiqa finds

Report also refers to ‘unexplained absences’ of resident from Sylvan Services centre

Nine special schools get emergency funds for insurance

‘A number’ of other schools have applied for extra funding over spiralling insurance costs

School for children with special needs gets temporary reprieve

St Teresa’s in Ballinasloe says it is faced with closure over rise in insurance from €3,000 to €26,300

Planned strike by 5,000 health and social care staff deferred

Siptu decided to call off planned stoppage after intervention of Simon Harris

Section 39 health staff to strike over pay restoration

Union claims management refused to give €1.5m for process to begin

Thousands of health and social care workers to go on strike

Industrial action over pay to begin at a host of State-funded bodies on February 14th

Galway disability centre ‘failed to prevent peer-to-peer abuse’

Hiqa releases critical reports into disability services in Galway, Louth and Tipperary

Sharing the caring: a respite scheme that gives families a break

Every month Chloe Collins, who has cerbral palsy, does a sleepover with her ‘other family’

Pay dispute suspended at centres for people with intellectual disabilities

Health service to seek €4 million to meet unpaid premium payments

Staff in State-funded bodies ‘should get public service pay’

Impact says funding of care service agencies is ‘out of date’

Impact says social care workers owed €10m in pay arrears

Personnel in west have voted for industrial action in campaign to have money paid

Threat to university course for people with intellectual disabilities

Successful NUI Galway project modelled on inclusive education in Canada

From a small start, Ability West has filled a large gap in disability services for 50 years