Ms Claire Mortell:

It is a matter of looking at the breakdown of where those posts are. Where I am working, we have two children's disability network teams and no vacancies. There probably needs to be a more strategic evaluation of where these vacancies are and whether they are within specific disciplines, rather than saying there are all these vacant posts. Identifying what are the disciplines will also inform where we need to put more investment in terms of education and bringing people through universities and so on to fill posts. I do not relate to that number because in our teams we do not have that issue. It must be looked at in a broader context than just the numbers to filter down and identify whether there are pockets geographically around the country that need more specific recruitment strategies and whether there are specific disciplines within a team that are vacant as opposed to vacancies across the board. It is important to break that down.