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Strategic Plans

Strategic Plan 2018-2023

Family Carers Ireland Submissions

Submission to the Central Statistics Office on Questionnaire Content for Census 2021 (PDF) (Oct. 2017)

Submission to the Dept of Health on the Creation of a Statutory Home Care Scheme (PDF) (Oct. 2017)

Submission to the Citizens’ Assembly on how we best respond to the challenges and opportunities of an ageing population (PDF) (2017)

Submission to Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice and Equality on proposed EU Directive on Work-Life Balance (June 2017)

‘There’s No Place Like Home’ Submission to Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Healthcare (PDF) (Nov. 2016)

Submission to Dept. of Education & Skills on Statement of Strategy 2016-18 (PDF) (May 2016)

Pre-Budget Submissions

Family Carers Ireland Pre-Budget Submission 2020 (PDF)

Family Carers Ireland Pre-Budget Submission 2019 (PDF)

Family Carers Ireland Pre-Budget Submission 2018 (PDF)

Family Carers Ireland Pre-Budget Submission 2017 (PDF)

Studies on Family Caring

Paying the Price: The Physical, Mental and Psychological Impact of Caring (Family Carers Ireland/College of Psychiatrists of Ireland/UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems, May 2019)

C. Kelleher & J. O’Riordan Post-Caregiving: Family Carers’ Experiences of Cessation of the Caring Role (University College Cork, 2017)

A. Lafferty, B. van Bavel, D. O’Sullivan, P. O’Mahoney Family Carers’ Experiences of Caring for a Person with an Intellectual Disability (National Disability Authority, Nov. 2016)

C. Kelleher & J. O’Riordan A Fine Balance: Mental Health and Family Caring (University College Cork, 2016)

Care Alliance Ireland Family Caring in Ireland (May 2013)

A Fives et al. Study of Young Cares in the Irish Population: Full Report  (Office of Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, 2010)

A. Fives et al. Study of Young Carers in the Irish Population: Summary Findings (Office of Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, 2010)

E. Argyle et al. Continuing to Care for People with Dementia (Alzheimer Soc. of Ireland/Uni. of Bradford, 2010)

F. O’Brien Family Carer Health Survey 2009: Summary (The Carers Association/College of Psychiatry of Ireland, November 2009)

The Carers Association Listening to Carers (2008) 

Related Studies

P. O’Mahoney, Review of David Grayson, ‘Take Care: How to be a Great Employer for Working Carers (Emerald, 2017) International Journal of Care and Caring 2.1 (2018)

O’Donnell et al. Promoting assisted decision-making in acute care settings for care planning purposes (HRB Open Research, February 2018)

Ní Shé et al. What are the mechanisms that enable the reciprocal involvement of seldom heard groups in health and social care research? (HRB Open Research, February 2018)

P. O’Mahoney, ‘Reciprocal Maintenance Obligations to Ascendants in Ireland: The Contemporary European and the Historical National Context Examined’ Irish Community Development Law Journal 4.1 (2015): 36-56

D. O’Sullivan and P. O’Mahoney, Report of the Palliative Care Community Learning Project (Dublin: All-Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care, 2014)

Election Material

Family Carers and Programme for Government 2016 (PDF)

Family Carers Ireland – Pre-Election Manifesto 2016 (PDF)

Family Carers Ireland – Election 2016 Canvass Card (PDF)

Family Carers Ireland – Building Caring Communities (2019 Local Election Manifesto)

Family Carers Ireland – Building a Caring Europe (2019 European Election Manifesto)

National Carers' Strategy

The National Carers’ Strategy was published in July 2012. Its forty-two actions represented a commitment by Government to support family carers, with the vision that they would be ‘Recognised, Supported and Empowered’, both in their caring role and in their participation in wider society. It sets out the strategic direction for future policies, services and supports provided by Government departments and agencies for carers. The Strategy contained a roadmap for implementation of its objectives, outlining recommended actions, timelines for achievement of objectives and the government departments with responsibility for each action.

The Department of Health produced an annual progress report, collating reported progress on each of the Strategy’s forty-two actions from the responsible departments. Family Carers Ireland coordinated a National Carers’ Strategy Monitoring Group with family carers and representatives from Care Alliance Ireland, which, beginning in 2014, evaluated each of these annual progress reports, producing a Family Carers’ Scorecard in response. (The first Scorecard was not published; the second accordingly responded to the first two Government progress reports.) The Strategy, annual government progress reports and the NCS Monitoring Group’s Family Carers’ Scorecards can be accessed below.

The National Carers’ Strategy (2012)

Fourth Annual Govt. Progress Report (Sept 2015 – Dec 2016) (2017)

Third Annual Govt. Progress Report (Sept 2014 – Sept 2015) (2016)

Second Annual Govt. Progress Report (Sept 2013 – Sept 2014) (2015)

First Annual Govt. Progress Report (Sept 2012 – Sept 2013) (2014)

Fifth NCS Family Carers’ Scorecard: Full Report (2018)

Fourth NCS Family Carers’ Scorecard :Full Report (2017, 2nd version updated January 2018)

Third NCS Family Carers’ Scorecard: Full Report (2016)

Second NCS Family Carers’ Scorecard: Summary (2015)

Second NCS Family Carers’ Scorecard: Full Report (2015)

Briefing Papers

Balancing Work and Care: International Challenges and Irish Perspectives (PDF) (Nov. 2017)

Carers and Employment: Socioeconomic Data from the 2011 and 2016 Irish Censuses (PDF) (Nov. 2017)

Carers and the State Pension (PDF) (2016)

Briefing Paper on Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Bill (PDF) (2013)

Training Materials

Training In Healthcare Booklet 2016

FCI QQI Level 5 Training Flyer

Learner Handbook 2017

Accounts & Governance

Agenda – Family Carers Ireland AGM June 29th 2019

Family Carers Ireland Annual Report 2018

Family Carers Ireland Financial Statements 2018

Family Carers Ireland Annual Report 2017

Agenda – Family Carers Ireland AGM June 23rd 2018

Family Carers Ireland Financial Statements 2017

Family Carers Ireland AGM 2017 Notification and Agenda

Family Carers Ireland Annual Report 2016

Family Carers Ireland Directors’ Report and Financial Statement as at 31st December 2016

The Carers Association Audited Accounts 2015

Caring for Carers Statutory Accounts 2014

The Carers Association Audited Accounts 2014

The Carers Association Audited Accounts 2013

The Carers Association Audited Accounts 2012

The Carers Association Audited Accounts 2011

Family Carers Ireland Carers Companion 2017

FCI Carers Companion (2017)

CC1 Introduction

CC2 Services & Supports

CC3 – HSE Supports

CC4 – Caring Safely in Home

CC5 – Looking after you

CC6 – Diet & Nutrition

CC7 – Financial Support for Carers

CC8 – Financial Management

CC9 – Young Carers

CC10 – FAIR DEAL

CC11 – Carer State Pension

CC12 – Legal Advice

CC13 – Coping with bereavement

CC14 – CONTACT SECTION

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