Mr. Fred McBride:

We will talk about the details of the report. We are getting 53,000 referrals, as I said earlier. The vast majority of them are screened. Someone looks at them and we make a decision on the basis of the information we have been given as to whether the referral requires an immediate response. As HIQA has acknowledged and we have said already, if it requires an immediate response, it gets one. The rest of the referrals work is about trying to prioritise what we need to do, how soon we need to do it and to what level. As Dr. Gillen said, we are building up the family support side of our service so that if a referral is made to us that does not require a social work or child protection response, but where families still need support, it can be diverted to a less formal type of intervention. As Mr. Gibson said, almost 30,000 children in families received some sort of family support service as an alternative to going down the child protection or statutory social work intervention route. At the point of screening, we are saying that all referrals are looked at and a determination is made as to what level of response is required.