We welcome an increasingly progressive tendency on the part of the State towards children often referred to as "troubled".
In the latest case, we hear that the Government, through Education M.
The pain of losing a child can scar families for a very long time. In most instances that grief extends to the wider community and if people do not receive professional counselling the torment.
All decent citizens of this country will welcome the proposal for handing out harsher punishment to adults who engage in sexual exploitation of minors, including the possession of child pornog.
Those who haven’t read the story headlined ‘Sex abuse’s culture of silence’ in yesterday’s Sunday Observer should do so.
The article reminds us not just of the widespread sexual abuse.