Letter: Terrible toddlers

The scheme to test toddlers for "criminal tendencies" and other deficiencies (your report, 15 March) carries a greater menace than the problem it seeks to solve.

Human rights lawyer John Scott laments that resources may not be found to help those identified. What worries me is that they will be.

Do we really want to label children as doubtful, then allow some gross state machine to make them conform?

Have we learned nothing from Hitler's camps and the Soviet Union's corrective programmes?

Bryan Webster

Houndlaw Park

Eyemouth, Berwickshire