A member of the House of Keys says vulnerable children in the Isle of Man still don't have a voice.
At last week's sitting of Tynwald, members rejected a call for an external inspection of the Island's childcare services, until the scheduled day in 2012.
East Douglas MHK Chris Robertshaw told the court it had been four years since the Commission of Inquiry into the Care of Young People recommended an examination, and he believed it should take place without delay.
During the debate it was claimed that if an external inspection took place in the next few months the childcare services section of the Department of Social Care would 'implode'.
But Mr Robertshaw says the government has to 'face up to difficult issues and deal with them':
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