Ms ?ine Lawlor:

Where that policy has been implemented, it is starting to work for families and they are not being turned away from a service because that should never happen for children or families accessing services. We work in our health system and know they are coming to access a health service. That is one of the pathways that needs to be implemented. If we think about what could happen to support therapy and intervention for children in disability services immediately without additional resourcing it is that piece around support for clinicians and pathways that we have spoken about. Without that we have some services trying to implement it and others trying a different approach to implement it. We need a standardised basic intervention that the CDNTs can offer and which can be delivered to families. There are definitely resourcing issues and that will change the levels and amount of care - the ideal care we would like to provide with our basic interventions that all CDNTs should be providing.