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Service Delivery
• Target plans to implement conversion and reduction of agency, management of overtime and more
effective skill mix and rostering arrangements
• Develop a national protocol with HIQA to improve compliance with national standards.
Enhance governance for service arrangements
• Implement the improvements from the findings / signposts of the completed SIT based reports
• Embed effective governance and accountability for section 38 and section 39 agencies
• Build capacity in CHOs to respond innovatively to existing and changing levels of support requirements
• Complete comparative analysis of section 38 and section 39 service providers to deliver enhanced
understanding for CHOs and organisations in relation to capacity to meet existing, new and changing
levels of support requirements
• Continue the development of the Oversight and Development Group.
Volume of services in 2017 includes:
Social Care – Disability Services
Area of service provision
NSP 2016
Expected
Activity
Projected
Outturn 2016
Expected
Activity 2017
Residential Places
No. of residential places for people with a disability 8,271 8,171 8,371 (i)
200 emergency places provided in 2016 0 200 0
Total residential places 8,271 8,371 8,371
New Emergency Places and Supports Provided to People with a Disability
No. of new emergency places provided to people with a disability, 200 in 2016
0 200 185
included above
No. of new home support / in home respite supports for emergency cases 0 0 210
Total no. of new residential emergency and support places 0 200 395
Congregated Settings
Facilitate the movement of people from congregated to community settings 160 97 223 (ii)
Respite Services
No. of day only respite sessions accessed by people with a disability 35,000 41,100 41,100
No. of overnights (with or without day respite) accessed by people with a
disability
180,000 182,506 182,506
No. of people with a disability in receipt of respite services (ID / autism and
physical and sensory disability)
5,274 6,320 6,320
Disability Act Compliance
No. of requests for assessments received 5,539 5,856 6,234
Progressing Disability Services for Children and Young People (0–18s)
Programme
No. of Children’s Disability Network Teams established (total of 129 by the end
129 56 129
of 2017)
Day Services including School Leavers
No. of people with a disability in receipt of work / work-like activity services (ID /
3,253 3,253 3,253
autism and physical and sensory disability
No. of people (all disabilities) in receipt of rehabilitation training (RT) 2,870 2,870 2,870
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