Ms Caroline Walker-Strong:

Ms McGrory works in a special school in Donegal. They have a wonderful model up there. It is not across the country. I suppose that is why Ms McGrory is down with us today. They have a wonderful multidisciplinary team in operation at the moment, but it is unclear if that model is going to remain. It would be great to see that model being replicated, not only in special schools but in mainstream schools, so that children stop having to pass their schools at the end of the road to go to the special school because that is where they are getting their therapies. This type of model could be rolled out and have those multidisciplinary supports, including the liaison between home and school, which, as Ms McGrory has pointed out already, is only really available in DEIS schools. That is where the social work role is really important because they are supporting the family. There is a family behind every child. It is having that support there that is minding the family to mind the child, to maintain the placement and prevent them getting to a crisis stage.