Promoting Inclusion: Shared Assesment:
Multi-Agency Planning and Practice

Presented in March, 2004

Partnerships

Alan Suttie, Chief Executive, Fife Society for the Blind

Vision

The Society has a vision of high quality services being provided to meet the range of needs
of all those having a debilitating visual impairment in Fife. The society will show leadership in
providing, from a centre of excellence, services that draw on the strengths, resources and
knowledge that will come from working in close partnership with health, education, social work,
employment and voluntary services.

The current maze


Multi-disciplinary


Inter-disciplinary


Intra-disiplinary


Health


Transition
Education ‹› Employment

Child ‹› Adult

Sensory Impairment Centre

• Visual impairment
• Deafblind
• Hearing impairment
• Multiple disability
• Sensory Centre
• Resource centre
• Professional staff base
• Meeting/training rooms
• Low Vision clinic
• Assessment facilities
• Day and rehabilitation facilities
• Ophthalmology
• Audiology
• Paediatrics
• Victoria Hospital

Service Agreements

Health

• Hospital support
• LV follow-up
• Mobility aids

Social work

• Assessment
• Rehabilitation
• Specialist social work

FSB

• Voluntary sector

Community services

• Talking books

Education

• Mobility training
• Resource production
• Technical support

Making Partnerships Work

Planning – involve, planning groups
Training – jointly learn, share knowledge
Monitoring – agreements, research

Promoting inclusion