Mr. Barry Owens:

On the community side of things, linkage TEOs, which are part of the probation funded side of what we do, have ongoing contact with local Traveller organisations around the needs of a person who is referred to them and they work together. The situation from prison to community, which I think is what the Deputy was asking about, is different. We find it very difficult to stay connected with people as they move from prison to the community. We do not fully understand that but that is quite a challenge and it is something we have discussed before with partners. The feedback and what we are experiencing show that even if somebody engages well in prison, we often lose them in the community. I am talking about very good engagement in the prison. The Traveller workshop I mentioned as part of my opening statement had very good engagement and it led to very interesting things in the prison. That group identified its own training. A furniture recycling workshop was developed from it, which they themselves identified, and the IPS provided and paid for it. They went through that and it was all very democratically done and participation and engagement was excellent. However, we still lost track of those people as they moved to the community, so there is a question there. That is a challenge for us and there is work that needs to be done there.