Ms Emer Deasy:

From a learning perspective, anyone in a regulated medical sector will do annual continuing professional development courses and will be obliged to keep up to date with best practice. If there is an unregulated system in which people are providing services that are unregulated, there is no guarantee it is best practice and no one is keeping a watch on it. Meanwhile, parents are stretching themselves to provide these services to their children in the hope that they are doing good.