Mr. Ger Brophy:

On the definition of “high priority”, we have high, medium and low priorities. High priority is where the assessed need is greatest, for example, where a child might be at risk of harm. Generally, those unallocated cases would be allocated to a social worker. Obviously, we are challenged in social work allocation at the moment. The standards for child protection and welfare and for foster care set out the allocation of social work. Cases would always be supervised by a social work team leader and would have other workers allocated to them.