Government criticised for failings on Traveller and migrant children in new Report Card

The Government has scored a C grade in the Children’s Rights Alliance new Report Card on how it is providing for the State’s young people — but was warned that more needs to be done in a number of areas, including migrant and Traveller children.

Report Card 2014 is the sixth version of the annual review of how the Government is faring with regard to children, and in her foreword to the report the chief executive of the CRA, Tanya Ward, said it had made progress in numerous areas, stating that the “B grades for constitutional rights, education and protection from abuse and neglect are attained for solid progress in these areas.”

But she said: “A number of outstanding issues have been either sidelined or progress is so slow as to be non-existent.”