Ms Rosemary Steen:

In the Middletown model the focus is on the child. That is why I wanted to work in the centre. The child's needs are put first which is a unique approach. It works better because the child gets everything. Once they come through to us and they are on the list for services, they get whatever they need for the following ten months. In the cases where we provide that intervention it is life-changing for those children and their families. I am very passionate about wanting to see that rolled out more. If we designed the service in a way that the focus was on the child as a primary user and designed out from them, rather that designing it to meet X number of users, we would end up with a very different philosophy and model. That might be a bigger discussion than we can have here but I am passionate about bringing that voice in because for those children-----