23/06/2011
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PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE
Yes we can (work together)
South Dublin County is a proud County, proud of its services and especially proud of all the organisations and frontline staff who work to deliver serves to Children and Families in this County.
The new Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald TD, will formally launch a number of pieces of work initiated by South Dublin Children’s Services Committee. These include:
Directory of Services for Frontline staff
Working Together for Children – an Interagency protocol
Sharing Information on Children and Families – a protocol
And
The Alternative Response Model (ARM) evaluation report
The event takes place on Friday 1st July, at 10am in The Council Chamber, South Dublin County Council, in the presence of the Mayor, local TD’s, Councillors and front line staff drawn from 130 organisations from 229 service points in South Dublin.
Streamlining, Re-evaluation, Value for Money, Downsizing, Comptroller and Auditor General are terms that are currently striking fear into the hearts of many public and community organisations and staff across the country. Now more than ever Ireland Inc needs both its public and community services to pull together, climb out of silos, change ways of working and embrace the new reality, ‘We have to do it together’
Doing it together requires a leap of faith and also knowledge of how to do it. Over the past number of years we have witnessed the results of organisations failing to work together, of staff arguably operating in a climate of fear, failing to share information and of families bewildered by the number of services being offered to them and often too bewildered by the lack of progress on their behalf.
South Dublin Children’s Services Committee, an initiative under the auspices of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and which was established to promote interagency working, publishes, today, its protocols, an evaluation of an actual interagency initiative and a Directory of Services, which it hopes will together help clear a path for Organisations, both public and community, to work together to ensure Children and families receive quality supports in a planned, integrated and supportive manner.
For further information please contact: Maria Donohoe, Children’s Services Coordinator, South Dublin County mdonohoe@sdublincoco.ie
Phone: 086 8031457
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