Child and Family Services
Safer Children, Stronger Families, Healthier Communities
Child and Family Services at Bessborough provide integrated community and residential services offering family support, social work and clinical psychology input to parents and children. Our ‘family preservation’ ethos aims to help parents and children remain safely together where possible and to reduce the volume of children removed into state care while promoting lifelong positive outcomes.
Parent and
Infant unit
Infant unit
The Lime Tree Project
Consultancy and Assessment
Parenting Groups
Marie O’Riordan
Child and Family Services Manager
Jonathan Horgan
Child and Family Services Manager
Dr Alasdair Ross
Clinical Psychologist
Infant Mental Health Specialist
Isobel De Búrca
Assistant Psychologist
Elaine Spillane
Acting Family Development Practitioner
Obi Ibebugwu
Family Development Practitioner
Susan MacConaill
Family Development Practitioner
Pamela Massey
Family Development Practitioner
Sheila Flanagan
Family Development Practitioner
Sean Kelleher
Family Development Practitioner
Ellen Bowen
Family Development Practitioner
Nicole O’Connor
Family Development Practitioner
Lena McCarthy
Family Development Practitioner
Kemi Oti
Family Development Assistant
Margo Ahern
Family Development Assistant
Caoilfhionn O’Donovan
Family Development Practitioner
Niamh Garde
Family Development Practitioner