Reconfiguring Children’s Services
As part of Transforming Lives, the Health Service Executive’s (HSE) Progressing Disability Services for Children and Young People programme has reconfigured children’s disability services into Children’s Disability Network Teams which provide services based on children’s needs rather than diagnosis and provide services based on where children with disabilities live.
The programme is based on the recommendations of the 2009 Report of the Reference Group on Multi-disciplinary Services for Children aged 5-18 Years. The aim of the Progressing Disability Services programme is to reconfigure of children’s disability services to deliver equitable, family-centred services for children and young people with complex disabilities in every part of Ireland. This reconfiguration is now complete and a Children’s Disability Network Team (CDNT) Service Model is in place.
The NDA has been commissioned by the HSE to conduct a review of the Children’s Disability Network Team (CDNT) Service Model.
Review of CDNT Service Model
The NDA has been commissioned by the HSE to conduct a review of the Children’s Disability Network Team (CDNT) Service Model. This is action 2.17 in the Roadmap for Service Improvement 2023-2026.
The review consists of Three Parts
- Part 1: a review of the Children’s Disability Network Team (CDNT) service model
- Part 2: a project to determine the optimal staffing for CDNTs
- Part 3: a review of the National Therapy Service in Education Pilot
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Literature reviews
To inform the review we are conducting a number of literature reviews. Three have been completed and can be viewed below.