Protecting children - Never ending challenge we must accept

WHEN the Ryan report was published last May the shocking decades of violence and abuse inflicted on children in care was exposed.

The publication forced us to ask fundamental questions about ourselves and our notion of communal responsibility.

We had to ask why we allowed this terrible, dehumanising behaviour to continue and why we turned a blind eye to it all for so long. We had to ask what we were prepared to do to ensure that vulnerable children would never again be so exposed.