Ms Tanya Ward:

A key recommendation in the national early years policy framework has not been implemented yet. It relates to a child-dedicated health workforce. There is meant to be specialised public health nurses to which every child in the country gets access in the early years. It is a non-judgmental service with developmental checks. We talked already about vulnerable families being referred to the right service.

If public health nurses were in place in all communities and able to reach all families, they would be able to do that and be able to pick up cases such as Daniel's or Kyran's. They would be able to intervene and make sure that the right social work response was actually getting to the families as needed. That is something on which the committee could put a focus.