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COVID-19

Right now, your Local Development Company is open for business through a combination of office work, home and remote working as well as being physically present in the community through their Social Inclusion and Local Employment Service staff, Tús workers, Rural Social Scheme and LEADER staff – observing Social Distancing protocols..

They are offering assistance to you and your community group, especially the most vulnerable.

Given their presence in local communities, the LDC response to the crisis has been rapid and widespread, with many of their 170,000 service users reached in the early days and weeks of the crisis. 

Currently, the 49 LDCs are receiving over 2,200 calls daily with COVID – specific requests for assistance and, in response, there are now 1,398 LDC staff plus scheme participants working directly on Ireland’s Community Call Response. The response in each area is different as LDCs support local structures and needs rather than imposing general solutions.

The wide range of responses now in place includes Friendly Calls services; Food provision; Pharmacy & Shopping Services; Employment and Self-Employment Supports; Supports to Community Groups; Online Training; Health, Well-Being and Social Prescribing; Mental Health Supports; Online grinds and education services to disadvantaged students; Supports to Social Enterprises; Supports to key target group such as Travellers, Roma, migrants and asylum-seekers.

All 49 LDCs are also key players in their Local Authority-led Covid-19 Community Call Response Forum.