Ms Brenda Feeney:

To add to that, and Professor Gilligan alluded to this earlier, I am not far from practice myself, and in my own experience as a manager I have had a number of newly qualified social workers come into a team who have chosen not to stay for the various reasons Dr. Halton has outlined. Some of the graduates come through agencies that provide workers for Tusla and the HSE, but there is no support that comes with that. If there were some sort of a graduate programme set up where graduates could access outside supervision and some sort of mentoring from experienced, professionally qualified social workers, that would help them to better maintain and sustain the roles that they are in. That would make a huge difference. That is just speaking from my own experience.