Ms Clare Murphy:

We have a strategy for residential care. What we are seeing emerge is a cohort of children and young people where there are high levels of aggression and complex mental health needs, with some of them involved in criminality and substance misuse. Therefore, aside from that strategy, we are also looking at other ways we can meet the needs of those children and young people rather than a typical registered foster home. We are piloting a semi-independent model at the moment and looking at that. Of the children on our waiting lists, 70 of them are 16 or 17 years of age, and we would not ordinarily place a person of that age in a foster care situation. We would be looking at residential care.