Ms Deirdre Kenny:

With regard to the preliminary team assessment, my understanding is that the idea came from services being reconfigured under the progressing disability services programme. There is an initial meeting with families and it is something similar to the preliminary team assessment. There is a first meeting and then they go straight into either interventions or pathways. Services are set up to meet needs in intervention and there is an initial meeting with the family to consider the family's goals and what path to set it on.