Mental handicap `alliance'

A national campaign to press for more investment in mental handicap services is to be launched by 30 groups of parents around…

A national campaign to press for more investment in mental handicap services is to be launched by 30 groups of parents around the State. They are to meet at St Michael's House special national school in Ballymun, Dublin, this afternoon to form a "parents' alliance" which will seek to mobilise public support.

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