Dr. Niall Muldoon:

The Deputy is 100% right. Children will find it very difficult to come to us directly, so they are very much relying on adults in their lives to help them with that. That is why only 3% of our complaints come from children directly. We would love to see our work, but also the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, within the curriculum so children understand from a very young age that they have rights, what those rights are and who protects those rights. That would set up a societal change so that over years people would understand those rights immediately and that is something we would like to move forward. Then there is the education of adults. We try to do outreach to trainee psychologists, teachers, social workers and social care professionals as they are the sort of people who will interact with children. There is other work we could do from that point of view.

Ms Ward may have other stuff as well.