SIR - Tony Blair is proposing a confidential, safeguarded, children's index - a database to include all our children to protect them from abuse, check how they are doing at school, etc.

However, the children of celebrities, whatever they are, but certain to be families like the Blairs and the like, will not be included as they might be in danger of kidnap, or the information might get into the wrong hands. Confidential, safe, or another Blair double standard?

Tony Blair is also proposing to target "problem children" not only while they are still in nappies, but before they are born.

Isn't stigmatising parents in that way somehow against human rights? If it isn't, it ought to be.

But ponder this. If these problem infants are to be considered as "children" in the womb, where does that leave the pro-abortion lobby who consider them no more than foetuses, a mass of cells, and of no account, certainly not "children" with a life potential?

Or is this to be an easy step towards aborting "problem children" to problem families? Didn't Hitler's Third Reich have a few ideas like that?

Alan Carcas, Cornmill Lane, Liversedge