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