Mr. Damien McCallion:

That message has been reinforced with the chief officers - they are effectively the CEOs of the areas - to ensure that no one should be in a position where he or she is, as the report alluded to, afraid to raise the existence of a risk. The majority of risks should be managed locally. The national system has a limited capacity to address them. Our role is to try to provide the framework or, where possible, the resources to them to manage risks. A risk management policy applies across all services, not just CAMHS. There are various training initiatives and so on. It may be that some of those need to be strengthened within particular CHOs. That will be done if necessary. The CHOs will take responsibility for directing it forward.