Ms Anne O'Connor:

On the waiting lists the Deputy referred to, the figure of 3,357 is specific to CAMHS. About half of those children are waiting for under 12 weeks. Our target is 12 weeks. About half are within the target period and about 1,700 are outside it. In theory, for us the waiting-beyond target figure is the 1,700. The larger number the Deputy referred to in relation to psychology concerns psychology for children across mental health and disability primary care. In the mental health area, we have invested in primary care psychology to support children because we know that when we are talking specifically about CAMHS, we are talking about children who have gone into the specialist mental health service. Our priority needs to be to support children earlier in their pathway in primary care or if they are in disability services. The 9,000 pertains to psychology for children across the different specialties; it is not specific to CAMHS. This relates to what has consistently been our challenge. It is now something we are trying to work through in implementing Sharing the Vision and recommendations on youth mental health and in all that good work that is going on. However, we are looking at how we can explain that better because psychology sits, in the main, within our primary care services, seeing children who are referred in a different way-----