Table 3.

Aims of the alternative respite service: Manager Reports

Theme	Sample Quote
Aims for Individual	M4: the core goal of it and to give it in a personal centred way that it will suit the individual themselves. And again, they would be at the heart of planning the alternate breaks … it can be meeting plans and personal centre plans as well if there is an element of a personal centre plan that can be built into it…
	M5: We hope to achieve that every person that would like, that there would be another family out there to support them to get involved in their lives…
Provide more options for families	M3: they’d ring up and say ‘God is it…’, you know ‘Is there anything happening next Friday’ and you’d say ‘Well sure we can make something happen next Friday’ so we could do something like a trip to the cinema, you know, so that gives somebody the option of staying back…
Break for family	M4: Again, it is to give the needed family break. That is the core of it, is to give the family the break …
Delay application for residential care	M4: …so there is the family need and to give or to stop the family unit from breaking down is the core…
Reduce family worries	M2: having the security and knowing that if something happened, … that in itself is nearly a reassurance for families that they know if something happens, they can avail of it.
Community integration	M6: we were trying to achieve a few things, in the community it is a positive thing for a community to know somebody with a disability and I suppose to see disability in a more positive light, was probably one of the things we hoped for.