The European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities (EASPD) adopted a roadmap to guide service-providers in the implementation of policies which will favour transition from institutional to community-based care. In the document entitled ‘Making community-based services a reality - Roadmap on deinstitutionalisation’, the EASPD acknowledges the need for support services to move away from medical model of disability to the rights-based model.
As part of the Opening Doors for Europe's Children campaign, Eurochild has published a Call to Action, advising Greece to reform its child protection system, and support deinstitutionalisation for all children, with or without disabilities.
Our director Milan Šveřepa wrote an article on Apolitical, an international platform that provides information to governments. The article is focused on children with disabilities living in institutions, promoting deinstitutionalisation as the only way forward.
Read an easy-to-read version of Helena Dalli's speech
about moving people out of institutions.
The topics of the meeting included work-life balance, the European Disability Strategy and deinstitutionalisation.
Last January,
Inclusion Europe's director Milan Šveřepa
was interviewed by a Czech journalist.
Here are some of the things that he said
in the interview.
Our director Milan Šveřepa wrote an article for a website called Apolitical.
In his article, Milan talks about deinstitutionalisation
of children with disabilities.
