Mr. Barry Slattery:

We have been working directly with the ISSU and the students in the case study schools on the consultation. The student voice is so integral to our work now that we almost take for granted that consultation is something that we do. It has been praised highly by people like the Ombudsman for Children, for example. It is probably because it is an area we started to work on over ten years ago. It has been a learning curve and we will continue to learn. In all areas of our work, we strive to do the best we can. We are always reviewing, reflecting and trying to develop best practice. Student voice is probably the area in which there has been the most development over the last ten years. We started almost from scratch in many ways.