be trained. This, coupled with data related to licensing and adaptation costs, allows us to give a crude estimate of national rollout costs for a three year period, as demonstrated in Table 5-1 below. This indicates that the likely rollout cost for the SIS would be more than twice that of the RAS, at just under versus just under (using the higher hourly average €2.9m €1.3m interviewer rate). These figures do not include costs for appropriate IT systems and associated hardware. Whether or not the interview cost represents a cash cost or implicit cost would depend on whether the assessment process becomes part of the core duties of existing staff or if staff are hired for the purpose of carrying out assessments. Table 5-1: Estimated roll out costs to a cohort of 42,000 service users over three years Assessment Interview Cost Other Total (€) Total (€) Process excluding associated (lower (upper – travel (€) Costs (€) interviewer interviewer hourly rate) hourly rate) RAS 840,000 to 131,000 971,000 1,286,000 1,155,000 SIS 1,932,000 to 272,000 2,204,000 2,897,000 2,625,000 Source: SQW Summary of the strengths, weaknesses and similarities between the RAS and SIS needs assessment tools In below, we provide a summary of the relative strengths and Table 1 weaknesses of the two assessment tools, as well as highlighting areas of similarity. This builds upon the earlier work done by the National Disability Authority, complementing this with key findings from the feasibility study. Items in the Table arising from the previous National Disability Authority paper are indicated ‘(NDA)’.
be trained. This, coupled with data related to licensing and adaptation costs, allows us to give a crude estimate of national rollout costs for a three year period, as demonstrated in Table 5-1 below. This indicates that the likely rollout cost for the SIS would be more than twice that of the RAS, at just under €2.9m versus just under €1.3m (using the higher hourly average interviewer rate). These figures do not include costs for appropriate IT systems and associated hardware. Whether or not the interview cost represents a cash cost or implicit cost would depend on whether the assessment process becomes part of the core duties of existing staff or if staff are hired for the purpose of carrying out assessments. Table 5-1: Estimated roll out costs to a cohort of 42,000 service users over three years Assessment Process Interview Cost – excluding travel (€) Other associated Costs (€) Total (€) (lower interviewer hourly rate) Total (€) (upper interviewer hourly rate) RAS 840,000 to 1,155,000 131,000 971,000 1,286,000 SIS 1,932,000 to 2,625,000 272,000 2,204,000 2,897,000 Source: SQW Summary of the strengths, weaknesses and similarities between the RAS and SIS needs assessment tools In Table 1 below, we provide a summary of the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two assessment tools, as well as highlighting areas of similarity. This builds upon the earlier work done by the National Disability Authority, complementing this with key findings from the feasibility study. Items in the Table arising from the previous National Disability Authority paper are indicated ‘(NDA)’.
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