April 2020
The Faculty of Intellectual Disability Psychiatrists welcomes the recent announcement of increased HSE funding and supports to the disability services during the Covid-19 pandemic. Over ten thousand children (0-19 years) are registered as having an intellectual disability in Ireland (NIDD 2017), the majority of children registered on this database function within the moderate-severe-profound range of […]
The Faculty of Intellectual Disability Psychiatry welcomes the recent increased HSE funding and supports to the disability services during these very challenging times. There are 28,388 people with Intellectual disability in Ireland, the majority (69%) of whom live at home with their parents. 7,530 (26.9%) are in receipt of full-time residential care. Of this group […]
Continued support, guidance and flexibility is needed for those with mental illness while protective and restrictive measures are in place for the Coronavirus. With this in mind and to alleviate the additional pressure or stress that families of young people with mental illness now face the College has embarked on developing a series of short […]
Continued support, guidance and flexibility is needed for those with mental illness while protective and restrictive measures are in place for the Coronavirus. With this in mind and to alleviate the additional pressure or stress that families of young people with mental illness now face the College has embarked on developing a series of short […]