What an amazing and uplifting statistic that, in this era of unprecedented year-on-year cuts to council budgets, three out of four local authorities are willing to welcome and provide a home to refugee children (Councils resist pressure to take children from Calais, 25 October). Surely that figure should have been blazoned across the front page?
Sadly, you promoted the opposite sentiment, that even local authorities are resisting the instinctive human urge to protect children.
Perhaps by doing so you are helping to cement in people’s minds the tabloid view that it is right, normal and somewhat inevitable that humanity’s capacity to offer care and nurture to those in need has become extinct.
Shelagh Linsley
Seaham, County Durham
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