Donal Mc Cormack

Donal Mc Cormack, who is our symposium secretariat has over 35 years of residential childcare experience as a practitioner and manager, during which time he has held diverse roles in community child care, inpatient child psychiatry, youth detention, mainstream residential and special care services for children.
Donal was the former national director of children’s residential services in Ireland managing a budget of €164m and a team of over 1,000 staff supporting approximately 600 young people across the statutory, voluntary and private sectors.
Donal currently lectures part time on the Masters in Professional Management of Complex Behaviour (PMCB) programme in Dundalk Institute of Technology Ireland and supports a broad range of health and social care professionals and services.