Mr. Jim Lennon:

One of the key things we have learned from our model is that the simple things make life easy. Co-ordination of inputs at any given point in time is very important. For example, a teacher in a school knows that they have a child with autism coming in and they are going to have that child for an academic year. Using the Middletown model, the teacher knows the child needs speech and language input, occupational therapy input or another educational psychology input. We can sort that out very quickly and put it into an education plan. Part of the difficulty, in both jurisdictions, is that if a teacher or special needs co-ordinator knows they have a child coming in and Middletown is not involved, then the person can spend endless hours on the phone trying to timetable in either speech and language therapy or another relevant support that the school or the NCSE may not have. It is not necessarily always an issue of resources. It is more an issue of co-ordination. That is one of the key things we have learned. It is about getting better value for money that has already been invested. We all know there are issues with recruitment and selection. We heard in the earlier presentation about therapists and the need to increase their numbers. Some of the answers are not complex but they are complex to put into operational settings.