Reform of Professional Social Work Training (PDF 124 KB)

Issues Paper: Practice Learning

Direct Payments Policy and Practice Review Report (PDF 243 KB)

Direct Payments are cash payments made in lieu of social service provisions, to individuals who have been assessed as needing services. Direct Payments increase choice and promote independence. They provide for a more flexible response than may otherwise be possible for the service user and carer. They allow individuals to decide when and in what form services are provided and who provides them, who comes into their home and who becomes involved in very personal aspects of their lives. Direct Payments put real power into the hands of service users and carers, and allow them to take control over their lives. Access to Direct Payments as a means of delivering social services in Northern Ireland has been available since 1996 under the Personal Social Services (Direct Payments) (Northern Ireland) Order 1996. Since then take up of Direct Payments has been limited in number with the majority being accessed in the physical disability programme. åÊ

CMO Annual Report 2002

Chief Medical Officer Annual Report 2002

CMO Annual Report 2003

Chief Medical Officer Annual Report 2003

CMO Annual Report 2004

Chief Medical Officer Annual Report 2004

Drugs Alcohol Report NI review (PDF 239 KB)

Review of the Northern Ireland Alcohol and Drug Strategies. March 2005.

Dental Branch Annual Report 2004/2005 (PDF 629 KB)

The second Annual Report of Dental Branch

Review of Children First - Final Report

Review of Children First - Final Report

Nursing & Midwifery Workforce Planning - Final Report Sept 05 (PDF 239 KB)

Nursing & Midwifery Workforce Planning - Final Report Sept 05

Independent Review of Health and Social Services Care in Northern Ireland

Appleby Report - August 2005