Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 January 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters
Family-Centred Practice and Parent Training Interventions: Discussion
Erin McGreehan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Where is the funding coming from for that? Why is it not State-led? Obviously, the witnesses' organisations have gone to the State for the roll-out. Again, we are going to the volunteer sector to ensure this is reaching the right families at the right time, although probably too late. I am interested in the case study in Australia, which stated 38% of the population. Again we are seeing a low uptake but great results. There was a huge positive result on that 38%. Has it been rolled out again in Australia? Have more parents taken it up? Has the service in general improved, by which I mean the institutional service or the equivalent of the HSE? I assume the roll-out has been improved because everything has improved, and children are at home so much longer in the day than they are in school or in therapies. Home is the centre. I presume it all improves. I would like to hear more about that.
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