There are a wide range of options in the health board system when children are at risk. Information from seven of the ten health boards indicates that 39 children in residential care were awaiting foster care placements at the end of 2002. The health boards are trying to provide placements for them. It is very important that we do so. One of the great developments has been the establishment of the social services inspectorate because it looks around the various residential centres and notes where there should be fostering rather than residential placements. In my work with the chief executives of the health boards I constantly remind them of the need to audit their residential placements and see whether fostering can provide an adequate alternative in any of those cases. Health boards, like other institutions, tend to build their own critical mass, and it is very important that one evaluates and audits that mass.