Professor Louise Crowley:

On the point about specialists, we brought teachers together every six months in a large group to allow then to speak to each other. This goes back to the network piece. We can provide them with the updated materials, lectures and training. We find that, facilitated by us, they also value getting together themselves. They share the experience of delivering different elements of the training and issues that came up for them. They really value this and they also connect with each other privately in order to support each other. In our experience, the teachers have been hugely positive. In August, I was called to a school in Mallow by a friend from the GAA club who said all the teachers wanted to hear what I had to say. I did a three-hour workshop. It is important that we do not underestimate the teachers' interest in being a support because they are living this and they feel much more empowered and safe when they have the information and the language.