Ms Caron McCaffrey:

We have an attendance management section in headquarters. We work on a constant ongoing basis with the management teams in our prisons. We have a monthly meeting with the HR governors and, twice a year, our attendance management team will go into the prison. We are looking at the profile of people who are absent on sick leave. Obviously in respect of some of those long-term sick leave cases, there are people who have very genuine serious illnesses and are absent from work. We are hoping we can support them. In terms of absenteeism, and the people who are in and out of sick leave, we manage the cases at prison level in consultation with the local team to ensure that we are on top of the issue.