Ms Nuala Ward:

I want to make a point on the important question on whether we are failing children and young people. The people we need to ask is them. We do not hear from these children. There has to be an absolute need for the State to build capacity to listen to their experiences and find out what it is like for them. We feel very strongly that we do not have sufficient skills to enable services and Departments when they are developing policies, guidance and legislation to hear from the children and young people about what would work for them.