The Under-Resourced Service in Northern Ireland

I think under-investment is the key issue. Social workers particularly are under-funded and then there's a high pressure system. I fostered within three years of that child being in foster care, he had had 10 different social workers or two of them didn't have English. And so that child had to retell his story at 10 times and try and connect again. So traumatizing. Like it would have probably been better for him to stay in a family home than actually have to go into a system where he had to reconnect with people. We know that attachment is so fundamental to development. And this is because, and social workers are fantastic. But when they're given heavy case