HIQA published National Standards for Children’s Residential Centres on 7 November 2018. The Standards describe what a safe and effective children’s residential centre should look like. We also developed a guide to accompany the standards, which is aimed at children living in residential centres and was informed by children with experience of care.
Read the National Standards and guide here. We also interviewed people involved in the development of the standards on the importance of these standards to children living in residential centres. Click here to watch these videos.
For further information or if you have any questions, you can email the Standards Team at standards@hiqa.ie.