Mr. Damien McCallion:

I might start and I will then call on some of my colleagues. The report contains two specific recommendations. One relates to the regulation of CAMHS, which is a policy issue for the Department. The second relates to a review of all open cases over six months old and where children were prescribed particular medication. We have initiated that review and, as mentioned, we have a target to finish that review by May.

The report made a number of points and observations on areas such as governance, IT, buildings, the team model and so on. Those were not specific recommendations but essentially were conclusions the commission came to. There are a lot of improvements going on, and I will ask my colleague Mr. Ryan to speak about them shortly. We have consolidated the learning from the Maskey review and from this report under one oversight group with two new appointments. One is a clinical lead for CAMHS who will work alongside our clinical lead for mental health as part of that. The other is an executive lead to drive these changes through with CAMHS in order to try to provide further support to our CHOs. All those observations, conclusions and findings within the report are being addressed. That has already commenced at national level. In the intervening period, on the HR side, we have been looking at how we can expedite the recruitment and increase the numbers of people working in the teams. We are also looking at an IT system. Some work was ongoing on that already. We are also looking at areas such as our estates.

I will ask Mr. Ryan to speak about one or two of the other areas in respect of progress was already under way. There was an ongoing dialogue as part of the commission's review. It was not that the report just landed. Many of the observations, particularly those relating to individual cases, were fed through and dealt with as we went through it. The publication simply pulled all that together.