Ms Brenda Feeney:

I can only speak from my experience, and that is what I and the department or service would have felt at the time. The other issue was that there were a number of people accepting posts in a certain geographical area, which was not necessarily the geographical area that they wanted to settle in. They would accept that post and be gone again within a year because they got a post in a geographical area that suited them better. That was causing a lot of movement in departments as well, which was not ideal for service users, as they would have a social worker for six to 12 months, and then that would change when they had only just begun to build a relationship. These were the issues that my colleagues and I would have noticed at the time, and had we been able to recruit locally or run local campaigns, it would have alleviated a lot of that.