Ms Kate Duggan:

I think there are two things. Our colleagues in the Department might want to come here from the policy perspective. Certainly, our first port of call for any young person coming into care is that we would first want to keep them, if we could, within the relative community in terms of securing relative foster carers, or in foster care. There are, though, a number of young people who are not suitable for foster care. There will always be a cohort of young people who will require a residential setting as being better able to meet their needs. I have no doubt, however, that if we had more foster carers, more children would be in foster care.