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Fine Gael Senator and Chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Autism, Micheál Carrigy, is calling on the HSE to urgently fill staff vacancies in autism services across the country to help alleviate waiting lists.

Parents devastated as one-quarter of staff roles in new disability network teams remain unfilled and children left in limbo.

Parents battle to get vital assessments for schoolchildren with additional needs

Protests to highlight the ‘shambles’ of the reconfigured children’s disability services

Fionn McCarthys mother is the voice for a super but non-verbal six-year-old boy

The parents forums will be held by Minister Anne Rabbitte in each county, but five have been scheduled for Cork where problems are particularly acute

There is an average vacancy rate of about 25% across teams, the Joint Committee heard this week.

Two recent surveys highlight concerns that services are getting worse rather than better.

Thousands of children waiting over a year to access vital services

Here is all the news you need to know this morning.