Submissions 2024
Adult safeguarding in health and social care settings (April 2024)
CIB in its response to this Department of Health consultation supports the need to strengthen adult safeguarding in the health and social care sector in Ireland and to ensure that a culture of safeguarding is fostered within every service. The policy proposals aim to address a number of shortcomings in adults safeguarding policy and practice to date, including, in particular, the fact that current policy does not apply to much of the health and social care sector. Our submission emphasised the need for a response to adult safeguarding in the broader societal context as well as in the health and social care sector, improving public awareness of adult safeguarding concerns and hearing the voice of service users.
PDF Onine Survey Form - Adult Safeguarding in Health and Social Care Settings - CIB 2 April 2024
Adult safeguarding in health and social care settings (April 2024)
Courts Service Strategic Plan 2024-2027 (March 2024)
CIB made a submission in response to an invitation from the Courts Service to contribute to a consultation on their new strategy. Provision of information in relation to access to justice and related legal services continues to be an element of the work of CIB-funded services—the Citizens Information Services (CISs), the Citizens Information Phone Service (CIPS), the Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS) and the National Advocacy Service (NAS) for people with disabilities. CIB contributes to the funding of the Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC) to provide information and advice clinics on legal matters in CISs. CISs received in the region of 40,000 queries in 2023 about justice matters – many relating to access to legal aid and advice — as well as queries related to issues such as separation and divorce, custody and access to children, maintenance, and domestic violence. This submission drew on the kinds of information queries handled by services and emphasised the core principle, that people’s ability to use the courts system to enforce the law is fundamental to their ability to access justice. Read more…
Courts
Service Strategic Plan 2024-2027 (March 2024) Courts
Service Strategic Plan 2024-2027 (March 2024)
Review of Housing Assessment and Allocation Guidelines for people with disabilities (March 2024)
The submission identified a range of issues in relation to the social housing needs assessment process in respect of disabled people, including a difficult to navigate application process. This review of the assessment and allocation guidelines being undertaken by the Housing Agency is central to the implementation of the housing strategy for disabled people. CIB drew on our research with DFI, ‘The Right Home’: Housing needs of people with disabilities to inform the submission.
Assessment
& Allocation Guidelines Review Housing Agency (March 2024) Assessment
& Allocation Guidelines Review Housing Agency (March 2024)
National Disability Strategy (February 2024)
CIB welcomes the opportunity to make a submission on a new Disability Strategy and acknowledges the progression of actions over the lifetime of the previous strategy. The development and implementation of a successor strategy is required to progress social inclusion and equality for people with disabilities. CIB has a role to assist and support individuals, in particular those with disabilities, in identifying and understanding their needs and options and in accessing their entitlements to social services. The submission proposes that actions that have not been achieved under the previous strategy be identified as priorities for action in the new NDS and are more closely aligned with the articles in the UNCRPD to assist in its implementation. Read more...
National
Disability Strategy (February 2024) National
Disability Strategy (February 2024)
Child Poverty Target (January 2024)
This CIB response to the national consultation on a Child Poverty Target focuses on the multiple and complex social and economic structural factors that contribute to ongoing child poverty. The evidence provided by CIB-funded services across the country demonstrates the ongoing financial challenges linked to costs of living generally, in particular energy costs and housing costs, which push some families into poverty. For many clients of these services, income shortfalls are exacerbated by problems in accessing public services, in particular, housing and health. The submission outlines the wide range of factors that can contribute to alleviating consistent poverty - these include social welfare payments, a Living Wage, timely access to public social housing and public child care provision.
Child
Poverty Target (January 2024) Child
Poverty Target (January 2024)