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Decision Support ServiceUseful Resources

Useful Resources

Government Departments and Statutory Agencies

Office of the Wards of Court

http://www.courts.ie/offices.nsf/0/19111E254B2EF547802573D2006CCF26?OpenDocument

HSE Assisted Decision Making in the Health and Social Care Context

www.hse.ie/eng/about/Who/QID/Other-Quality-Improvement-Programmes/assisteddecisionmaking/

National Safeguarding Committee, Promoting the Rights of Adults who may be Vulnerable

https://www.safeguardingireland.org/

The Office of the DSS at the MHC hosted the launch of the paper “Review of current practice in the use of wardship for adults in Ireland”. (December 2017) The full report can be read on the NSC website here.

Citizens Information Centre - Current legal arrangements for incapacity

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/health/legal_matters_and_health/legal_arrangements_for_incapacity.html

Citizens Information Centre - Information on current wards of court system

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/health/legal_matters_and_health/wards_of_court.html

Citizens Information Centre - Relate, Guide to the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015

http://www.citizensinformationboard.ie/downloads/relate/relate_2016_04.pdf

Law Reform Commission - Report on Vulnerable Adults and the Law, LRC 83 – 2006

http://www.lawreform.ie/_fileupload/Reports/Report%20Vulnerable%20Adults.pdf

Department of Justice Information on the Act

http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/Assisted_Decision-Making_(Capacity)_Act_2015

Briefings and Information

Briefing for Oireachtas December 2019

DSS Information Leaflet November 2019

Advocacy and Non-Governmental Organisations

Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of organisations active in the area of assisted decision making and related issues. The MHC-DSS does not take any responsibility for the content of these external organisations and / or their websites.

Inclusion Ireland

http://www.inclusionireland.ie

SAGE, A guide to the Assisted Decision Making Act 2015

http://www.thirdageireland.ie/assets/site/files/pr/New_Times_2nd_Ed._June_2016_website_version.pdf

Support and Advocacy Service for Older Persons (SAGE)

http://www.thirdageireland.ie/sage/resources/capacity-legislation-information

The Alzheimer Society of Ireland

http://www.alzheimer.ie/Home.aspx

The Irish Hospice Foundation

http://hospicefoundation.ie/programmes/advance-care/