Care Experiences Programme Team

Dr Sadhbh Whelan, Programme Manager

Sadhbh joined the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) in February 2018 as the Child Protection Information Manager. Prior to that she worked as an independent research consultant. In the early part of her career, Sadhbh worked as a practitioner in frontline services, in the areas of child protection and homelessness. Latterly she worked as a researcher mostly in university-based research centres where she worked on research studies and evaluations relating to the needs of children, families and services provided. Sadhbh’s doctoral thesis was on child protection and welfare reporting.

Angela Feeney, Programme Team member

Angela has a social care practice background and has worked directly with children and young people across a range of care settings including residential care, foster care and aftercare. Angela has also worked in frontline and managerial roles in services that support children and their families in the community. She started working with the Tusla National Research Office in 2016 and is now on secondment to the DCEDIY working as the Tusla Coordinator for the Care Experiences project further strengthening the collaboration between DCEDIY and Tusla. Angela is completing her PhD research at the University of Galway exploring the interface of child protection and family support policy and practice.

Andrew Lally, Programme Team Administrator