A judge has ordered medical intervention for a teenage boy in State care after being told he has only had one shower this year.
At a Family Law Court sitting, Judge Alec Gabbett said that "is it staggering to hear" from the teenager’s allocated TUSLA social care worker that the boy, who is being accommodated at a residential centre, has only had one shower in 2023.
Judge Gabbett said that this is especially the case where the boy is being accommodated in a professional house where there is round the clock care to prompt him "to make sure he does these things".
