Social Europe - Supplement

European Commission Directorate-General For Employment Social Affairs And Inclusion

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The social integration of disabled people
Employment policy

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• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-EMPLOYMENT_SOCIAL-AFFAIRS-AND-INCLUS
• Nombre de lectures: 38
• EAN13: 928256911
• Langue: English
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The social integration
of disabled people
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The social integration
of disabled people
SUPPLEMENT 7/86
COMMISSION OFTHE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR EMPLOYMENT,
SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND EDUCATION This publication is also available in the following languages:
DE ISBN 92-825-6910-1
FRN 92-825-6912-8
The information contained in this publication does not necessarily reflect either the position or views of the Commission
of the European Communities.
Luxembourg, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1987
© ECSC-EEC-EAEC, Brussels· Luxembourg, 1987
Reproduction is authorized, except for commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged.
Catalogue number: CE-NC-86-007-EN-C
ISBN 92-825-6911-X
Printed in Belgium - ι -
SOCIAL EUROPE
DOSSIER : THE SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF DISABLED PEOPLE
CONTENTS OF THE DOSSIER Page
I INTRODUCTION
I, 1. The Foundations of the Commission's action in 1
Favour of disabled people
2. Signposts in the Commission's programme 3
3. The Scope and Structure of the Dossier 4
II TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT
II, 1. The Community Network of Rehabilitation 5
Centres
2. The European Centre for the Development 11
of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP)
3. The Council Recommendation on the Employment 12
of disabled people in the European Community
4. The interventions of the European Social Fund 15
III
INDEPENDENT LIVING
III, 1. A Favourable environment 16
2. The Commission's housing programme for disabled
people 18
3. A European Card for disabled people 21
4. Leisure 22
4.1 The Arts
4.2 Sport- π -
IV FINANCIAL PROBLEMS AND BENEFITS
IV, 1. Vocational Rehabilitation and Social 25
Security
2. Taxes and levies 30
V THE "GRASSROOTS"
V, 1. The District Projects for the socio-economic 32
inteoration of disabled people
2. Other "grassroots" actions 37
2.1 Associations of and for disabled people 3
2.2 The Bureau's subvention programme to 38
support European cooperation
2.3 Relations with Rehabilitation International 40
2.4 The Europrogramme of Mobilityl 40
2.5 New departures : local authorities and 41
social partners
VI INFORMATION AND CONSULTATION
VI, 1. Handynet - the Community Information Network on 43
Di sabili ty
2. Audio and video 50
3. Publications1
4. Liaison and contact groups3
VII NEW AREAS OF INTEREST
VII, 1. The integration of young handicapped into 54
ordinary schools
2. The new technologies 58 τη -
VIII ANNEXES
VIII, 1 Subventions 1985
1.1. Subventions for European Cooperation 61
1.2 Grants for housing projects 65
Information notes
2.1 Subventions for European Cooperation 67
2.2 Grants for housing projects 69
Network lists 3.
3.1 The Rehabilitation Centres 72
3.2 The District Projects 74
3.3 The European and International 77
non-Governmental Organizations
3.4 The Rehabilitationl 80
European Secretariats
3.5 The Handynet "Family" 82
General Publications
4.1 Policy Documents6
4.2 Studies 88
4.3 Articles in Social Europe 90 - 1 -
I INTRODUCTION TO THE DOSSIER
I, 1 THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE COMMISSION'S ACTION
IN FAVOUR OF DISABLED PEOPLE
SOCIAL EUROPE has always been kind to those of us who work in the
Commission's Bureau for Action in Favour of Disabled People ; a list
of Social Europe articles about our programme is given in the Annex
to this Dossier (VIII, 4.3). But of course we specially welcome this
opportunity to present our programme as a whole.
As early as 1974 the Council adopted a Resolution establishing an ini­
tial action programme to promote the vocational rehabilitation of the
handicapped. The period from then until 1981 was a useful and forma­
tive one which saw above all the establishment of the Community Network
of Rehabilitation Centres (see II, 1) and the scheme of grants to support
innovation housing projects (see III, 2).
The United Nations International Year of Disabled People in 1981 offered
a unique opportunity for both a widening and a deepening of the Community
approach to the problems of disability. All the institutions responded
- the Parliament with a Resolution in March of that year, the Economic
and Social Committee with an opinion in July, and the Commission in
October with a communication outlining a new action programme which was
adopted by the Council in December.
At every level there was a willingness to break out from the restraints
of merely economic considerations and to embrace all the aspects of social
integration - indeed an insistence on the need to do this. As a conse­
quence, it has been possible since 1981 for the Commission to comprehend
within the framework of one programme the full range of factors which
can contribute to the ideal of independent living - education, training,
employment, social security and care systems, communications, mobility
and housing to name the most obvious. For the first time the Commission
has been able to follow the 'golden rule' in respecting the interdepen­
dence of the elements which make up the world of disability.
The programme itself pursues three main objectives :
- to encourage policy development, and wherever possible to take a lead
in this by means of a planned series of policy initiatives ;
- to establish a Community-wide system for the acquisition and exchange
of information on disability problems, using new technology for this
purpose ; - 2 -
- to promote and facilitate innovation, the exchange of experience and
the dissemination of good practice, with particular attention to the
activities of associations of disabled people, to the work of rehabi­
litation professionals, and to services and cooperations undertaken
at local level.
It is important to stress that, in addition to this one programme of
policy development, information and technical cooperation, there are
other activities of the Commission of considerable importance to disa­
bled people. Chief of these are the financial interventions of the
European Social Fund, and a diversity of valuable initiatives in the fields
of technological and medical research and development. There are in
addition other relevant activities, for example in relation to transport,
social security, taxation and the internal market. Though a number of
these are mentioned in various articles in this Dossier it has not been
possible to do them full justice here, in view of the diversity of acti­
vities within the programme itself which need to be described.