Childcare agency probing counselling done by suspect ‘psychologist’

The Childcare and Protection Agency (CPA) has launched an investigation into how an unauthorised person was allowed to counsel at least one client and her children at its East Bank Office, located in the old Ministry of Human Services and Social Security building on Cornhill Street.

Deputy Director of the agency Tionna October told Stabroek News yesterday that an investigation has been launched into the individual’s presence at the Cornhill Street office up to Tuesday, where he met with a client. It is understood that the man, who told the woman that he is on call with the agency two times a week, is not employed with the agency and had no grounds to meet with its client.