Child welfare - Broken vows no surprise

Nobody should be surprised that the Government has been breaking its promises.

The Children’s Rights Alliance Report Card for 2009 provides a yardstick for measuring the broken promises in child welfare.

Out of 25 key commitments made in the documents Towards 2016 and the Programme for Government, more than half are seriously behind schedule. In the area of children’s health, 300 primary care teams were supposed to have been set up by the end of last year, but only 97 were established.