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Money is pretty rational. It goes to where it gets the best risk-adjusted returns. The problem is that the perception of risk in some of these areas is greater than the reality.
How do we address that problem? Our firm tries to provide the best working environment. We close down diaries to make sure that our staff are not overworked.
As the minister, I will need to sign off some of those appointments, but it might be best if Fran talks you through the technical detail of the requirements of the application process itself—for example, how candidates are sifted.
We need to recognise that and to do the things that will best support them through the police and the criminal justice process in a trauma-informed way.
Information campaigns work. It is early days, but the best start grant campaign seems to have had a big impact, with a welcome increase in applications for that.
I hope that it will also disseminate best practice when the reports are published, such that boards that are perhaps not doing as much as they could to encourage applications by women or that do not know how to go about that will pick up on the experience of other boards that are delivering that by way of best practi...