The following presentations which were given at Masterclass 3 - "Risky Business? Supporting People in a Natural Way" - are now available for download:

Jonathan Irwin, Jack & Jill Foundation.   

Anne Coffey, KARE "Real Needs, Real Choice, Real Lives".

Joe Mason & Ann Touhy, Walkinstown Association "Ann's Story".

Lorraine McNicholas - Walkinstown Association "Damien's Story".

Irene O' Byrne-Maguire, State Claims Agency "Assuring Quality Outcomes"

Willie Walsh - "A Parent's Perspective: Organisational Insecurities - A risk to the Good Life".  Also link to A Credo for Support - Spoken Version.

Olive Moynihan & Lisa Fitzgerald - COPE Foundation "Positive Risk Taking for adults with Severe and Profound ID".

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Programme is available here

Questions focused on how we can develop our understanding of how services respond to the potential stresses of positive risk taking and how this might influence their ability to maintain and develop long term successful positive risk taking practices.

As espoused in the NFVB Vision Statement 2009 ‘There is a need to scope and define the concepts of duty of care and extended duty of care as they apply to the funder and service provider. How can service providers integrate paid direct support and “natural networks of support” or “freely given” support and still keep people ‘safe’ ?‘’

In addition there is a risk of ‘health and safety’ requirements acting as a barrier to inclusion and citizenship. The scope of rules and regulation in supporting true citizenship and inclusion needs to be addressed.

We explored the challenges inherent in supporting people naturally in their communities, the risks for organisations but most of all the opportunities for people that can arise from taking these risks!