Ms Hilary McAlea:

Our model is bespoke and I accept that. We have looked at other models. I named three and each of those is unique to its district - the Harlem Children’s Zone in New York, City Connects in Boston and the community network model in Florida. What we did was to listen to our student voice, our student council and our parent voice, and then, from that, our model emerged. That is how it was built. We started with the therapeutic supports and then the family supports with regard to housing and education.