Dr. Sarah Donnelly:

I want to mention the repercussions for social workers in these situations. One of the difficulties has been that senior managers in the HSE do not always have clinical expertise. That is the case more often than not. This has been a significant issue and challenge with regard to supporting the decision-making and assessment of social workers in their recommendations. One of our recommendations is that all senior managers in the HSE should be mandated to take adult safeguarding training. This training is mostly online. We need to move back to face-to-face adult safeguarding training.