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DSP Supports for People with Disability & Employers. IASE National Disability Policy Information Event Clarion Hotel, Liffey Valley, Dublin Wednesday November 14th 2012. Context ….
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DSP Supports for People with Disability & Employers IASE National Disability Policy Information Event Clarion Hotel, Liffey Valley, Dublin Wednesday November 14th 2012
Context … • DSP now has a staffing complement of approximately 7,000 following the merger of the Community Welfare Service and the FÁS Community & Employment Services into the Department in the last year. • DSP is now one of the largest public service organisations in the country. • Deeply engaged in a process of transformation.
Transformation … • Meeting the business requirement to align the DSP, CWS and FÁS regions; • The on-going need to manage and deliver the considerable range of programmes and schemes that the Department is now responsible for in an efficient and effective manner; • The need to provide a management structure in each region capable of delivering the integration and synergy of the three organisations; • The need to maximise the benefit to our customers - whether they be the taxpayer, or the benefit recipient, or those who must be supported back to work.
Broader responsibilities in the disability area • Income supports • Disability Allowance • Income disregard • Age issues • Invalidity pension • Interaction with PCB • Illness Benefit • SSP issues • OIB • Partial Capacity • Effectiveness/operational issues
Employment supports • EmployAbility • Supported Employment Programme • Wage Subsidy scheme • Reasonable Accommodation Fund • Employee Retention Grant • Workplace Equipment and Adaptation Grant • Personal Reader Grant • Job Interviewer interpreter grant • Disability Awareness Training
Disability Activation Project • Phase II – DACT • > €7 m. between now and early 2015 • Managed by Pobal • 14 projects selected across BMW region • 4 strands • improving access to employment; • progression for young people with disabilities; • progression for people with an acquired disability; • innovative engagement with employers.
Questions, questions, questions … • How do we improve effectiveness of employment supports? • How to we fit WSS and Reasonable Accommodation into new DSP structures to ensure better awareness, delivery and value for money? • How do we ensure consistency of approach across SUP? (administration, governance, finance etc.) • How do we enhance tracking of SUP participants after they leave the programme?
More questions …. • How do we enhance PCB take-up and address operational issues? • How do we address the issues associated with the DA income disregard? • How do we ensure that the outcomes of the DACT are fed into the wider evolving activation agenda? • How do we tie in with the engagement with employers – new ‘stakeholders’ for the DSP? • How do we ensure effective engagement with stakeholders, including IASE?
So we’re trying to move from …. Questions to solutions