HIQA has commenced a programme of inspection is focused on the safeguarding of children and young people living in children’s residential centres.

All HIQA staff involved in the regulation and or the monitoring of services against regulations and standards adhere to this approach and to any associated procedures and protocols. HIQA’s monitoring approach provides staff with a range of procedures, protocols and tools to assist them in carrying out their functions. The assessment-judgment framework and framework for safeguarding in statutory children’s residential centres should be used in conjunction to drive improvements.