Sir, – Carl O'Brien states that more than 8,000 cases of child abuse, neglect and welfare concerns over children at risk are waiting to be allocated a social worker ("Concern over child protection backlog", February 2nd).
Surely this state of affairs makes a mockery of the passing of the children’s rights referendum: “The State recognises and affirms the natural and imprescriptible rights of all children and shall, as far as practicable, by its laws protect and vindicate those rights”.
This neglect will undoubtedly come back to haunt us as a society. – Yours, etc,
EILEEN McDERMOTT,
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Dublin 6W.