Ms Carol Hyland:

On the long waiting lists and how we should resource them, we have found it really difficult to get young people into any other service. We believe that a multidisciplinary approach based in a youth service can only have a positive effect on young people. It is about creating an infrastructure around the young person in terms of youth workers, family support workers, drugs workers, counsellors, social workers, employability workers and sports workers. If the young person feels comfortable coming to the safe space that has been created, his or her behaviours in terms of antisocial behaviour can be challenged in a collaborative manner with all of the professionals who are needed to engage with the young person.