Ms Kate Duggan:

If members would like to see a copy of the report, we can share it with the committee. It is also based around storytelling. We know that members of the Traveller community trust members of the Traveller community. What we are trying to promote in terms of having members of the Traveller community on our staff and leading out our programmes equally applies in circumstances where we can offer peer support programmes. For example, one of the things that we have done this year is employ experienced foster carers. These people work for 15 hours a week. As with the primary care workers who come from the mid-west, we have done a huge amount of work to develop a programme of peer support workers from the Traveller community to support mothers and children. We are doing the same for fostering, and we hope to have one of those groups for the Traveller community this year. Stories build trust and Travellers will trust each other if they have had a better experience with our services. We are happy to share the Values Lab report.