Ms ?ine Flynn:

That question is probably better addressed to the Courts Service, which has been mobilising to prepare for these applications under Part 6. It has done preparatory work including engaging with existing wards of court, their families and committees. It has done a communications exercise around that. From information I heard yesterday, about 40% of current wards of court are anxious not to wait and would like their applications to be heard and to be discharged from wardship within the first year. I do not have any particular intelligence as to how long it will take or how the court is organising for that. I had heard that perhaps three judges were going to be identified to take rolling lists to deal with those applications while another would deal with continuing orders in wardship, but those questions are better addressed to the Courts Service.