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We are delighted to launch a new research report ‘Exploring the Need for a Representative Advocacy Service for Children with Intellectual Disabilities in Ireland’. The research was completed by Emma Q Burns, Dr Cliona de Bhailís and Professor Eilionóir Flynn and was commissioned by Inclusion Ireland.

This research has demonstrated that there is a clear gap in the provision of representative advocacy for children with intellectual disabilities in Ireland. While many participants in this research identified that there is potential for a representative advocacy service for children with intellectual disabilities consensus on the precise structure, governance, and operation of such a service were hard to achieve. What is evident is that access to representative advocacy can help protect and promote the rights of children with intellectual disabilities, but that any such service must be child-centred, human rights-focused, fully accessible and adequately resourced to fulfil its remit.

You can access the research report and an Easy Read version by clicking here.