Dr. Rosaleen McDonagh:

This issue has a long, long history for IHREC. The overdiagnosis of Traveller children and children from new communities is very worrying. It is also very worrying that there are no standards of training in place and if they are, they are on an ad hoc basis and are not mandatory, although I think there is very little care or concern given to those children going through the trauma of being locked in a room for two hours on a Monday morning.

For another generation, education is failing and abuse becomes part of its narrative.