The Advocacy and Accessibility team have a number of responsibilities in relation to advocacy, including:
- Supporting and resourcing advocacy projects in co-operation with the community and voluntary sector, particularly for people with disabilities
- Supporting the development of accredited advocacy training
- Raising awareness of advocacy among service providers and community, voluntary and statutory agencies
- Commissioning research
- Supporting and developing the Sign Language Interpretation Service.
Advocacy publications are available free of charge and and can be downloaded from our Advocacy and Accessibility Publications section.
This team is also responsible for assistireland.ie and has produced the report Access to Information for All (pdf), which aims to help organisations improve the accessibility of their information.
Tá dualgais éagsúla maidir le cúrsaí abhcóideachta ag an bhfoireann Abhcóideachta agus Inrochtaineachta, ina measc:
- Tacaíocht agus acmhainní a chur ar fáil do thionscadail abhcóideachta, go mór mór le haghaidh daoine faoi mhíchumas, agus é sin a dhéanamh i gcomhar leis an earnáil dheonach agus phobail.
- Tacú le forbairt oiliúint abhcóideachta a bhfuil creidiúnú aici
- Feasacht a spreagadh maidir le habhcóideacht i measc soláthraithe seirbhíse agus i measc gníomhaireachtaí deonacha, reachtúla agus pobail
- Taighde a choimisiúnú
- Tacaíocht a thabhairt don tSeirbhís Mhínithe Teanga Comharthaíochta agus í a fhorbairt.
Is féidir foilseacháin faoi chúrsaí abhcóideachta a fháil saor in aisce agus is féidir iad a íoslódáil ón rannán Foilseacháin Abhcóideachta agus Inrochtaineachta ar ár láithreán gréasáin.
Tá an fhoireann seo freagrach freisin as assistireland.ie agus chuir siad an tuarascáil Access to Information for All (pdf) ar fáil a bhfuil sé d'aidhm aici cabhrú le heagraíochtaí inrochtaineacht a gcuid faisnéise a fheabhsú.
