Dr. Amanda Burke:

I am on that work stream and I feel passionately about the fact that we need to get this transition right. The services in this regard are very different in their approaches and compositions. It is a big change for families, as the Deputy said. Parents will have been completely involved in their child's care up to the age of 18 and then suddenly this young person will be going in on their own to a team without their family. We must change this model. The subgroup is looking at this point. We have made several recommendations, which we will be sending on shortly now, and we hope some of these will be resourced in the short term.

The move up to the age of 25 is a more medium-term to long-term undertaking, because it will require a whole paradigm shift as to how we do our business. We do, though, believe there is an interim change that we can undertake in a programmatic approach. By this, I mean the ADHD model, for example. We will be looking at that model of care in CAMHS and aligning it with the ADHD model of care in adults, because this is one of the most problematic transitions now as we are building our new capacity within the adult teams to look after ADHD. These teams are only coming on stream. The transfer of people across to those services in that context is probably one of our most problematic issues. Dr. Niazi might wish to speak more about this point.