Learning Disability Service Model
12 September 2025
The Department of Health is consulting on the draft Learning Disability Service Model. The Model proposes a new approach to supporting adults with a learning disability through Health and Social Care services in Northern Ireland. It sets out the key outcomes we want to achieve, the principles that will guide delivery, and the actions needed to improve services across the system.
The draft service model has been developed in collaboration with Trusts, independent sector providers and people that use HSC services.
The closing date for responses is 25 November 2025
HSC Children and Young People’s Emotional Health and Wellbeing Framework
1 September 2025
The Department of Health is consulting on the Health and Social Care Children and Young People’s Emotional Health and Wellbeing (EHWB) Framework. The Framework, when finalised, will support health and social care services and practitioners to collaborate with other services, agencies and key stakeholders in order to rationalise, coordinate and integrate high-quality, evidence-based support, intervention and diagnostic care pathways that best meet the needs of children, young people and their families.
We would welcome your views on the draft Framework during this consultation period.
This draft Framework has been co-produced together with a wide range of stakeholders across the statutory, voluntary and community sectors, including young people, parents, practitioners, and policy makers who were engaged throughout the development of the Framework.
The Framework has been developed to align with, and complement, the vision and aims of the Department of Education’s Children and Young People’s Emotional Health and Wellbeing in Education Framework(external link opens in a new window / tab) (2021).
The closing date for responses is 26 September 2025
