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Six One News: Joe Little, Religious & Social Affairs Correspondent, reports the charity says hundreds of children are trapped between natural families who cannot fully care for them and foster families who cannot fully have them
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Morning Ireland: Fergus Finlay, Chief Executive, Barnardos, outlines the charity's suggested wording for the Constitution amendment
The charity put forward its suggested wording for an amendment today at a Barnardos-sponsored conference at the Law Society headquarters.
Barnardos Chief Executive Fergus Finlay said the majority of Irish people polled by the charity favoured a constitutional change that would give special recognition to children's rights.
The Minister for Children, Brian Lenihan, said that only a matter of weeks remain to work on the wording of the referendum.
Geoffrey Shannon, the lawyer appointed by the Government to help make the Constitution more child-friendly, told the conference there was a need to support hundreds of children, whose natural parents no longer visit them but block their adoption by foster parents.
