Ms Kate Duggan:

Our chair is stating the fact, which is that today we have made a decision. Where we had vacancies in social work and social care, previously we would not have filled them and would have left them vacant. We made a decision within the agency to use the resources that are available today to fill all those posts to better support social workers. If social workers are supported with their administrative tasks in relation to an administrative burden, they may be more likely to stay.