Is the Minister satisfied that all the personnel working in the community care area have the necessary training to determine if names should be included on those lists?

The director of community care is responsible for the maintenance of the lists in a community care area. The people who refer the cases to the director come, as I stated, from a wide range of backgrounds because of their involvement throughout the community.

Would the Minister confirm that the directors of community care, who have ultimate responsibility in this area, have no specialist training to make those decisions? Could I draw the Minister's attention to his own guidelines which require health boards to provide specialist training and ask him if any action has been taken to ensure that those guidelines are being properly followed by health boards?

The guidelines are disseminated, reviewed from time to time and brought to the attention of members of community care teams.

Is the Minister's Department aware of any health board who have provided any specialist training of any kind for any members of the community care teams including the directors of community care?

That does not arise on this question. This is a statistical question. It asks the number of children named as being suspected or as actual cases of non-accidental injury on lists of children at risk of such injury.

It arises out of the Minister's reply.

It relates to a different matter. The Deputy raised that matter on a previous question. It does not arise on this question.