Re: ‘Wrong officers' (The Weekend Sun, February 24).

Jim Sherlock's letter suggesting people be employed to round up children absent from school – not a good idea.

Why should we pay to look after other people's children? Instead the parents should be warned and told to make sure their children go to school, excessive absenteeism, they the patents should be given home detention.

The scheme would cost nothing and responsibility would be placed where it belongs.

The scheme would also work for children committing crime.

A J Gilmour, Bethlehem.