Mr. Bernard Gloster:

To be fair to parents and families, I would not blame them for the confusion. CAMHS have their own social workers, but sometimes when people hear the term "social worker" they automatically assume he or she is a Tusla worker. There are a number of children who would have been known to or in the care of Tusla and who were also patients of CAMHS and, as part of the investigation and review, were being considered. The normal role of a Tusla social worker in such a context is to ensure that the CAMHS professionals have the social work assessment and social care profile of the child, as Tusla knows it, to assist in the CAMHS assessment.