Mr. Ger Brophy:

For children not in care, we also have high, medium and low. Children identified as being somewhere where there may be harm or where an investigation is needed to establish whether there is harm are high priority. In those cases they are the priority for allocation. Those children of lower priority who are unallocated may be welfare cases, as we refer to them. The ones where harm is not positively identified may be receiving some sort of support from the family support worker, social care workers, or from some of the voluntary organisations we work with. We have that variety where we prioritise those children with the greatest need, and they will get a social work service. The others will have a worker working with them so they get that level of support too.