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Review of the Health and Social Care Needs of Victims/Survivors
of the Northern Ireland Conflict
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The project aim
is to provide sufficient data and analysis on the range of needs of
victims and survivors of the Troubles in the Eastern Health and Social
Services Board area, perceptions of that need, and on services available
to them, to equip the EHSSB and the Trauma Advisory Panel to plan future
services and strategies for service development.
The project objectives
are to:
- Engage the cooperation
of the key representatives and groups within the constituency of victims
and survivors of the Troubles;
- Engage the co-operation
of the key agencies within the statutory and voluntary sector service
providers and other public stakeholders;
- Establish an
effective steering group, which will incorporate this range of interests
and which will advise and assist the research team;
- Catalogue the
range of existing provision and service providers within both the
statutory and voluntary sector, within the EHSSB area;
- Consider how
the services cover patterns of need elicited from the survey data;
- Evaluate the
extent to which existing provision matches levels and types of need;
- Identify gaps
in service and opportunities for service innovation and development;
- Make recommendations
about service development and innovation;
- Catalogue the
spread and categorisation of data collected routinely within HSSBs,
NIHE, H&SS Trusts, ELBs;
- Evaluate the
usefulness of routinely collected data in planning and monitoring
services to meet the needs of victims/survivors;
- Make recommendations
about future systems and practice in routine data collection.
The research methods
will include:
- A written review
and evaluation of recent research and evaluations of needs and services
for victims and survivors of the Troubles;
- Identification
and extrapolation of data on items such as punishment beatings, shootings,
being made homeless due to paramilitary threat etc.
- Direct face-to-face
interviews with key informants within each of the identified agencies
in the voluntary and statutory sectors;
- Compile and analyse
findings on data collection practices in service providing agencies
such as the PSNI, NIHE, Dept of Health and Trusts, Dept of Education,
Education and Library Board, Compensations Agency.
- Focus group interviews
with those in the statutory and voluntary sectors working directly
with victims and survivors in the EHSSB area;
- Individual interviews
with a sample of victims and survivors in the EHSSB area, selected
to give a spread of views and experiences;
- Policy review
and development of recommendations.
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