Press Release from Onafhankelijk Leven vzw (CIL Flanders, Belgium) The disability sector is subject to a historical change as and from the 1st January 2015. The Flemish parliament has approved the Flemish Parliament decree which will realise this change. The decree of Individual Funding is providing a system in which the budget of the government…
The Norwegian Government has now included hours for personal support contacts and respite care in the act governing user-controlled personal assistance. ‘Respite care and personal support contact hours will be included in the act, which is an important improvement compared with the bill presented by the red-green coalition government last year. Instead of the 3,000…
Good news from Norway! 20 years after Sweden, Norway is to obtain an individual rights legislation for personal assistance! The last government proposed a legislation that would have been a great backlash! With that proposal personal assistance would no longer have been able to be considered as personal assistance in its true form. Uloba, one…
On 17 January 2014, the Southampton Centre for Independent Living – SPECTRUM held an event to celebrate 30 years since John Evans left an institution and started to live independently. Numerous independent living activists, from both the UK and abroad, gathered in Southampton or sent messages, paying tribute to John and saying “thank you” for…
In February 2013, the Slovenian Government lost the vote of confidence and all activities regarding Personal Assistance act came to a standstill until October 2013. The new government and its current Minister for Labour , Family and Social Affairs scrapped the draft of Personal Assistance act proposed by YHD – Association for Theory and Culture…
The European Network on Independent Living is still collecting tables on the situation of personal assistance from all European countries and is pleased to be able to add the table from Holland. ENIL would like to thank Ms. Jose Smits for her work producing this table. There are now twenty one tables on the ENIL…
The EU crisis seriously compromises the rights of people with disabilities and a study now brings us evidence to show that this is indeed true. On November 6th 2012, the European Foundation Centre launched a study entitled: “Assessing the impact of European governments’ austerity plans on the rights of people with disabilities”. The study reveals…
Invited paper presented at Colloquium “CRPD and EU Structural Funds: The way ahead for Independent Living”, United Nations Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner, Europe Regional Office, Brussels 7 May 2012 Adolf Ratzka, Ph D Independent Living Institute I am with the Independent Living Institute, a Sweden-based thinktank for policy formulation in the field…
As you may know, YHD has collected the required number of signatures of voters to be able to put the Law on Personal Assistance into the process of adoption through the instrument of civil initiative. On the 14th June 2012, we immediately sent the text of the law into the decision making process. With that…
