Ms Mary Nolan:

Lots of external funders will take on board the social and emotional journey of a child or young person. Government needs to start looking at a conversation around what outcomes are. Dr. Sean Gallagher and Dr. Tony Morgan wrote a paper for the University of Ulster called "The Process is the Product: Is There a Need for Measurement in Youth Work?". Our work is our outcome. Every day a child or young person shows up is an outcome. We need a conversation that stops looking at what the hard or soft outcomes are at the end of it and invest in our children.