INCLUSION IRELAND AGAIN CALLS FOR INDEPENDENT
INSPECTION OF DISABILITY SERVICES
Inclusion Ireland is again calling on the Government to protect people with an intellectual disability and provide an independent inspection regime for disability services. An independent inspection regime must involve HIQA inspectors.
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INCLUSION IRELAND WELCOMES BUDGET ANNOUNCEMENT ON STANDARDS AND INSPECTION IN DISABILITY SERVICES
Inclusion Ireland welcomes the commitment announced by Disability Minister John Moloney to bring forward proposals to Government in early 2010 in respect of the protection of adults with disabilities who are in disability services funded by the State.
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INCLUSION IRELAND SLAMS CUTS TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Inclusion Ireland rejects cuts to people on Disability Allowance and Carers Allowance,
as an attack on the direct living standards and the quality of life of people with
disabilities.
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INCLUSION IRELAND & NPSA URGE GOVERNMENT TO REMEMBER PEOPLE WITH A DISABILITY
Inclusion Ireland and the National Parents and Siblings Alliance (NPSA) urges the
Government to keep people with a disability to the fore in the coming weeks as the
Estimates for all Departments are published.
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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEOPLE WITH A DISABILITY TOMORROW – GOVERNMENT SAYS PEOPLE WITH A DISABILITY ARE A PRIORITY, INCLUSION IRELAND SAYS PROVE IT!
International Day of People with a Disability will be celebrated tomorrow (Thursday 3rd December). Inclusion Ireland suggests how the Irish Government can best celebrate this important day and improve the lives of more than 26,000 people with an intellectual disability in Ireland
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SUBSIDIES FOR ACCESSIBLE TAXIS WOULD STIMULATE MOTOR INDUSTRY
Subsidies for accessible taxis would stimulate the motor industry and allow for a more inclusive society, says the Accessible Taxi Consortium, a coalition of Disability organisations. Despite a commitment in the 2007 Programme for Government for a 100% accessible taxi fleet in all cities by 2010, just one year before that target, only 6% of taxis and hackneys in Ireland are accessible.
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NEW EUROPEAN STANDARDS ON ACCESSIBLE INFORMATION!
A European project called Pathways focused on making information easy-to-read and understandable for people with disabilities. The main aim of Pathways was to make lifelong learning programmes more accessible for adults with intellectual disabilities.
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TIME FOR ACTION OVER INSPECTIONS
Opinion:
A Government pledge for unannounced visits to inspect residential services for people with an intellectual disability must be implemented, writes Deirdre Carroll
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MINISTER HARNEY IS SELECTIVE IN ENSURING EFFECTIVE, ROBUST INSPECTION REGIME FOR VULNERABLE PEOPLE
- STILL NO INSPECTION OF DISABILITY SERVICES
New standards and inspection of nursing homes are this evening being cited as reason why Leas Cross will not happen again – but for people with an intellectual disability in residential care, there are no mandatory standards and no inspection and hence no guarantee this will not happen again to people with a disability.
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FRONTLINE DISABILITY SERVICES, PSYCHOLOGISTS AND SPECIAL NEEDS SCHOOL TRANSPORT MUST NOT BE ‘SNIPPED’
Inclusion Ireland recognises the serious economic situation facing the country but urges Government not to cut frontline disability services, psychological services, the half rate carers allowance or special needs school transport.
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INCLUSION IRELAND CALLS FOR FULL DEBATE ON REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INVESTIGATION INTO LEAS CROSS
Inclusion Ireland is dismayed that the Report of the Commission of Investigation into Leas Cross will be released two hours after the report of an Bord Snip Nua.The debate and controversy, which will inevitably follow the Bord Snip Nua Report will diminish the media coverage and opportunity for public discussion on the State probe into the Leas Cross scandal.
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LAW ON CHECKING RESIDENTIAL DISABILITY CENTRES ESSENTIAL
OPINION: Institutional care does not belong to a different era, as the Ryan report stated, as thousands of people with disabilities still live in such care, writes Deirdre Carroll.
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INCLUSION IRELAND CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE INSPECTION AND STANDARDS IN SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH A DISABILITY
- Child Abuse Commission Report says “independent inspections are essential” and children with an intellectual disability are “especially vulnerable”
- No inspectors go into services for children with an intellectual disability and there are no national standards these services must meet
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PEOPLE WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY STILL IN PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS 25 YEARS AFTER GOVERNMENT POLICY SAID THIS MUST STOP
Government must urgently address the provision of mental health services to people with an intellectual disability, according to the third report of the Independent Monitoring Group (published yesterday Monday 20th April) on the Government’s mental health policy A Vision for Change.
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WHAT LESSONS ARE LEARNT AFTER GALWAY ABUSE REPORT?
Inclusion Ireland says abuse detailed in the McCoy report on the Brothers of
Charity service in Galway, could happen today as there is still no independent
inspection and regulation of services for people with an intellectual disability.
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PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES DID NOT SHARE RICHES OF BOOM BUT ARE ASKED TO SHARE PAIN OF ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
Inclusion Ireland, the national association for people with an intellectual disability, says it is relieved that social welfare allowances such as disability benefit, respite
care grant, and the carers allowance have not been touched in the emergency
budget.
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"What if the Minister for Education had come into the Dáil and announced that the names of all primary school children were going into a hat and 534 children would not have a class for next year? There would be outrage and uproar. But with children with special needs its always ok to cut services…"
- Katherine O’Leary, Parent at Inclusion Ireland AGM
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URGENT PLEA TO GOVERNMENT FROM INCLUSION IRELAND CHAIRPERSON ON BEHALF OF PARENTS
Inclusion Ireland Chairperson William Shorten will tomorrow call on the Government to ensure services for people with an intellectual disability and their families will not be further eroded.
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DIARY NOTICE: INCLUSION IRELAND 2009 AGM
Standards in Residential Services for People with an Intellectual Disability to be keynote discussion at 2009 Inclusion Ireland AGM
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SPECIAL TEACHER CUTS WILL HAVE DIRE LONG-TERM EFFECTS
Inclusion Ireland, as the National Association for People with an Intellectual Disability, is shocked and outraged by the Department of Education’s decision to cut the number of special needs classes which support up to 900 children with a mild learning disability.
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