UNCRPD (United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities)

•  Paradigm Shift

•  Internationally Binding •  Rights Based •  Progressivity

•  Article 12 •  Defines THE Destination

•  ? Ratification

NATIONAL DISABILITY STRATEGY

•  Disability Act and Sectoral Plans

•  EPSEN Act •  Investment Programme ! •  Mainstreaming •  Disability Stakeholders Group + +

NATIONAL DISABILITY POLICY

The Gap Between What People

Want & Current Provision

Sustainability of Current Provision

-  Economic Climate -  Changing Demographics - Changing Expectations

Full Inclusion & Self-Determination for People with Disabilities

Underpinning Principles & Values - Citizenship

- Control

- Informed Choice

- Self-Determination

- Responsibility

- Inclusion

- Participation

The Creation of a Cost-Effective, Responsive & Accountable System which will Support the Full Inclusion & Self-Determination of People with

Disabilities.

Underpinning Principles & Values

- Equity - Person-Centred - Quality - Effective - Efficient - Sufficient - Accountable & Transparent

PROGRESSING CHILDREN’S SERVICES

•  Primary Care Teams when the Child’s Needs Can be Met There

•  Network Generic Early Intervention & School

Age Teams •  Support as Needed from Specialist teams in

Areas of High Expertise

ANTICIPATED OUTCOMES •  A clear Pathway to Services for Every Child who

Needs them

•  Equity & Consistency Across the County

•  Effective Teams working in Partnership with Parents

•  Resources Used to the Optimum

•  Health & Education Working Jointly to Achieve Best Outcomes for Children

“MOVING ON FROM

CONGREGATED SETTINGS”

- All Provision in Dispersal Housing in the Community

- Housing Responsibility of Department of Environment.

- Health Related Supports Responsibility of Mainstream Health Service.

- Specialist Agencies Focus on the Provision of Individualised Social Supports.

REPORT

“Time to Move On from Congregated Settings”

A Strategy for Community Inclusion.

Available: http://www.fedvol.ie/Key_Policy_Documents/Default.1693.html

NEW DIRECTIONS

Equip People • To make choices and plans to support personal goals. • To have influence over the decisions which affect their lives. • To achieve personal goals and aspirations. • To be active, independent members of their community & society.

New Directions

Core Values

•  Person-Centeredness •  Community Inclusion and Active Citizenship

•  A Quality Service

New Directions

Other Relevant Policies

•  The Review on Autism •  NCSE Policy Advice re Special Education •  New Resource Allocation Model in Special

Education •  National Housing Strategy for People with

Disabilities. •  Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People

with Disabilities.

Innovations.

•  Progressing Childrens Services •  Genio Projects •  Next Steps Project

“Change is the law of life and those

who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future”

- John F. Kennedy.

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent,

but the one most responsive to change”

Charles Darwin 1809-1882, English Biologist & father of the Evolution Theory.

“Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and

taxes – it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of

upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm”

- Peter Drucker - Management Challenges for the 21st Century (1999).

Challenges •  Scale of the Change / Leadership •  Attention Deficit Implementation Disorder (ADID) •  The Irish Reality •  Timing •  Poor Data on Costs.

Challenges •  Lack of Therapists / Psychologists •  Managing Challenging Behaviour in Schools •  Lack of Capital Resources •  Conflicting Goals – High Quality Low Costs •  Lack of Research & Evaluation.

Challenges •  How we Un-bundle Funding •  How do we Scale Up •  No Two Agencies are the Same •  Getting Parents / Families / Service Users on

Board •  Are we Prepared to Pay for What we Want?