Minister will pledge to overhaul assessment system that is failing children with disabilities

Anne Rabbitte, Minster of State for Disability, will speak at today's Joint Committee on Children, Disability, Equality, and Integration about the assessment of need system. Picture: Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie

The minister with responsibility for disabilities is expected to tell an Oireachtas committee today that the backlog in assessments of need is failing children and that she intends a system overhaul to change how the process is delivered.

Anne Rabbitte is to speak before the Joint Committee on Children, Disability, Equality, and Integration on the issue of assessment of need, which has already been the subject of criticism from the Ombudsman for Children and professional bodies.