Mr. Jim Ryan:

To be clear, the division is not saying it is the right thing to happen to the young person. It certainly is not in that situation. When a young person is admitted, however, I get a fax immediately into my office that says a young person has been admitted to an adult unit. A similar fax goes to the Mental Health Commission. We know every day how many young people are admitted. We have a weekly bed meeting at which all the referrals that are being made in that week are assessed clinically by our four CAMHS services. They do not work in isolation but in tandem to ensure we can provide a service. I accept there is a distance involved but I have to work within the service we are funded for to try to be able to provide the best service we can.

On retention and recruitment, we have looked at many different ways of going about things. Part of it is about terms and conditions, which were mentioned earlier. Much of it has to do with trying to create a modern service. The last question put to me concerned what is new. Part of this is about sticking at what we are doing and trying to do it better. That is what we are fully focused on and I am fully committed to it in my role today and in my role as head of operations.