Mr. Pat Smyth:

There are probably two questions there. We can give the committee extra data on where we see those posts going. We started the process of recruiting additional numbers since 2016. The evidence that we were not able to hire the number of social workers we needed did not come about suddenly. In terms of where we have been going with our workforce plan, the lack of supply or the lack of capacity to retain social workers has become much more evident over the past 18 months. In terms of developing this front-door model, where we have a multidisciplinary team, part of what we are engaged in at present is identifying the most effective use of the resource that we might otherwise have been applying to social workers, for example, whether it should go to more social care workers or more skilled administrative staff. We have a model that sets that out. As we said earlier, we are in the process of testing it across a number of areas to see how effectively it works. The output will be the figures around the new types of areas that we need to go after. That is a little bit of a work in progress but I can give the committee an overall picture.