Number of children begging falls to record low, say ISPCC
The 2005-2006 report by Leanbh, which is due to be published later today, shows there was a total of 756 sightings of juveniles begging in the past year. It represents a 3.7% decrease in the number of sightings compared to the previous 12-month period.
However, over a third of all sightings involved a case of a child begging in the company of an adult They accounted for the vast majority of the 154 sightings of children under the age of four who were witnessed.
