Ms Gráinne Cullen:

When critical incidents do occur within a school, NEPS is one of our front-line responders in providing support for the school community, children and families, and everyone connected to the school. We invited the NEPS critical incident team to address the forum. The forum is quite a large group of Traveller and Roma representative organisations and representatives from the local and regional projects. The idea is to workshop the various policies of the Department from the perspective of the participants - in this case that is the representatives from the Traveller and Roma communities - to ensure the NEPS response is appropriate because it can be different within Traveller communities when there is a critical incident or a suicide.