‘People are pushed into accessing assessment when they shouldn’t be’
HSE's Bernard Gloster: Numbers waiting on assessments of need will grow from 15,000 to 25,000 by the end of the year.A third of referrals for Assessments of Need are “inappropriate”, and “people are being pushed into accessing assessment when they shouldn’t be”, chief executive of the
Under disability legislation introduced in 2005, children are entitled to access the formal AON process within six months of applying.Kneecap case: ‘A woman pointed to a sniggering Móglaí Bap as the magistrate asked if anyone knew an Irish interpreter’In May, the HSE estimated the number of children awaiting an AON for disability or autism services for six months or longer will grow from 15,000 to 25,000 by the end of the year.
Mr Gloster said that he is “acutely aware of the serious challenges” to the Children’s Specialist Disability services. Mr Gloster said that legislative reform of the AON should not change the nature of what it is, rather “the basis on which people would access it”.
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