Mr. Fred McBride:

The way we have been categorising these has been as high priority rather than high risk. We need to have another look at this. High priority, for example, does not necessarily equate to high risk. One would think it would but it does not. A child in care without a social worker could be a high priority, because we have a statutory duty to have a social worker for that child, but the child might well be in a well settled, relative placement where there are no evident risks. That is an example of where it is a high priority to reallocate a social worker to the child but it is not necessarily a high risk case.