Ms Cliodhna O'Neill:

We can check things with colleagues in TESS, but my understanding is that the educational welfare officer becomes aware of children in his or her area and goes out and proactively supports them where that is the case. Ideally, in a circumstance like this, the community link worker would be aware of a school-age child, but we have not put the community link workers in place yet. This is a new post. We are literally recruiting them. This is how we visualise it working. The community link workers will be available to the community such that they will link in with the EWO where necessary, but first they will support the parent if he or she is looking for a school place. They will then link, if necessary, with the EWO, and EWOs have ongoing information about where places are available. We used this model very successfully with Ukrainian students who were coming in where we did not necessarily know where there were school places. We put in place a structured team around the country to know where there was capacity. That has worked extremely well, so we have learnings from that that we will be able to apply in this space.

Did Ms Cullen want to come in on the role of the CLWs and so on?