Ms Miriam Jennings:

It is very difficult to be a mother and feel you have failed your other children while you were trying to be everything to one child. It is very, very difficult.

I refer to unpaid leave and the extended families trying to cover. Seventy to 80-year-old men and women coming in to cover care needs is not appropriate. They did not work and pay taxes all their lives to do that. You are talking about the sibling relationships that are decimated in many cases. Many of these children, because they do not get the care in the summer they absolutely require for survival, are fast-tracked into our residential care system. As we said in our opening statement, while the care of these children is cradle to grave - let us face that reality - many of our families do not want to be talking about or having discussions on residential care due to just a lack in summer provision.