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	Family law experts are calling for more consistency between courts and social workers when it comes to dealing with care orders.</p>
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	The Child Care Law Reporting Project says there are &quot;striking&quot; and &quot;huge variations&quot; in how the matters are dealt with between the services - with some children removed from their families for minor parental drug use - while some orders are rejected in spite of &quot;powerful&quot; evidence.</p>
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	Minister for Children James Reilly said that taking children into State care is a &quot;last resort&quot;.</p>
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	However, he said that a more consistent and uniform approach should be introduced.</p>
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	&quot;[The project is] shining a light on this whole area, giving us much more information about the problems that children face, that their families face, giving us indications too of how perhaps earlier intervention might have avoided these situations escalating, without compromising the anonymity of the children concerned,&quot; he said.</p>
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	&quot;And I think it&#39;s going to be useful from the courts&#39; point of view too. They will understand that there is more need for a uniform approach.&quot;</p>
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	<a href="http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/huge-variations-on-how-care-orders-for-children-are-dealt-with-671527.html">http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/huge-variations-on-how-care-orders-for-children-are-dealt-with-671527.html</a></p>
