Dr. Patrick Sullivan:

What I am going to say is this remains policy until it is reviewed and updated on a cyclical basis.

On the number of parents and focus groups, I have before me the number of people who participated in our focus groups but it is across teachers, school leaders and parents. I do not have the exact figure for parents but I can get that to the Senator. We held parent focus groups in many traditionally marginalised communities - with the Traveller community, in centres for direct provision and in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas. We did outreach to get the views of parents in that respect.

One of the points on consultation is that, like any research, you reach saturation at a certain point. Views are very broadly reflected. One thing we are eager to do in the consultation report we will publish is to reflect the views back to people that they have shared with us and outline clearly the next steps in that regard.

To pick up on the question of the toolkit-----