Last month a number of stickers highlighting the protesters’ dissatisfaction with some of the workings of the service were spotted around the town.
During a Children, Education and Home Affairs Scrutiny Panel hearing yesterday, Children’s Minister Sam Mézec said his department was discussing the campaigners’ complaints with them.
‘I am a supporter of people’s right to take part in demonstrations and it is important if they feel strongly,’ he said.
‘What matters more to me is what we do afterwards to consider the issues raised.
‘I have sympathy with some of the points raised by the people involved. Some have concerns with certain things going on, complaints in particular and how those are handled.’
The minister did not reveal any specific details about concerns the protesters had raised with him and his officers.
Despite having sympathy with some issues, he said, there were occasions where people would be upset with a decision of Children’s Services, despite the correct decision having been made.
He added: ‘I get a lot of communication from people who are dissatisfied with the service they receive.
‘It is the nature of this work that things can still be done perfectly, but people still get upset with decisions.
‘People can feel aggrieved but that does not always mean there has been an injustice.’
