Ms Margaret Lowndes:

There is a massive inconsistency across the board between the services. I can speak to two services in our area, both of which are doing different things. One is constantly doing parents' courses and the other is starting to bring in group interventions, if you want to call them that. These are six weeks of Lego therapy, which is fantastic but it is only six weeks. By the time you get to know that child - or the eight kids that you have there - you are finished and left for the next few months without them. While the CDNTs look really well on paper, the reality is absolutely totally different. You have to be at crisis point and on your knees before you will get anything from them or before they will enter your school in our area.