The Child Protection Services investigation against Mariah Carey has been dropped.

YOUR editorial and article, (August 4), focus on Ireland’s Child Protection Services, which are currently under the control of the HSE.

The National Association for the Treatment of Abusers says children are being put at serious risk due to the lack of a national model for the treatment of sex abusers.

THE red flag which initiated a HSE audit into the diocese of Cloyne was a notification to the Department of Health of the failure of that diocese to report an allegation of abuse to the child protection services of the HSE.

THE Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (AGSI) has said the lack of proper social worker cover in Cork city was “grossly unfair and damaging to vulnerable young people”.