Category: Blog

  • Inclusion Europe is 35 this year, and you wouldn’t know it.

    Today (14 December 2023) in Brussels, we’ll be having a little celebration of Inclusion Europe anniversary. We are 35 this year. I’m looking forward to meet some of the people who contribute to our work towards full rights and inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities and their families. It’s always a pleasure. Now, you’d probably…

  • Inclusion indicators

    New report shows for the first time what the “European way of life” means for 20 million people with intellectual disabilities and their families. This new report shows information about 29 countries, 23 of them in the EU. Key findings: In 26 countries, a person’s legal capacity can be removed, and they cannot decide about…

  • Supporting a person to establish their new life during deinstitutionalisation

    Every person leaving an institution needs support in establishing a new life, and in overcoming the harm and trauma caused by institutionalisation. Presentation of principles and some examples of supporting people with intellectual disabilities to live independently and to be included. With particular focus on support for people leaving “care” institutions. I made this presentation…

  • Right to live independently and to be included; Deinstitutionalisation; Support

    Many politicians, public authorities, and disability service providers act as if they don’t know what the law says about inclusion of people with disabilities.As if they never heard of good disability support. They keep forcing people into “care” institutions, even building new ones.They delay the necessary de-segregation with talk about “need for evidence”, or about…

  • Funders bear responsibility for what their money does

    It is not acceptable for funders to continue paying for segregation of people with intellectual disabilities. All funders need to respect the rights of people with disabilities.They need to listen to what people with disabilities are saying about how the money should be used. Funders are, for example: Countries (including national, regional, local public budgets);…

  • Bydlení

    V newsletteru Davida Klimeše (vynikající pondělní zpravodaj, kdo náhodou nezná) se dočítám: “Hlavním pilířem [zákona o podpoře bydlení] je zřízení kontaktních míst pro bydlení při obcích s rozšířenou působností, která budou v přenesené působnosti:2. zapisovat do evidence podpory v bydlení osoby v bytové nouzi a osoby ohrožené bytovou nouzí,3. zkoumat, zda byty, v nichž se má osobám…

  • Goodbye Eastern Europe

    Just notes and archives of some books I read and find interesting and relevant. “An intimate history of a divided land.” Surprising, revealing, and ultimately optimistic despite everything read. My book of 2023. “Many peoples, faiths, languages lived together, in a loose symbiosis, strong enough to last for centuries. It was not always peaceful or…

  • Transformation of services for persons with disabilities – summary of report by UN Special Rapporteur

    Gerard Quinn, the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, published a report on transformation of services for people with disabilities. I tried to summarise. (Written for Inclusion Europe.) The report calls for support services to implement these changes: Services based on personhood, focused on supporting personal development and inclusion in the community. Policy…

  • Vcelku rozumná rodinná politika

    Vcelku rozumná rodinná politika

    Graf ukazuje hodnotu rodinných dávek pro rodinu se dvěma dětmi, v poměru k průměrné mzdě v dané zemi.Průměrná hodnota v zemích Evropské unie je 15 %.Česko v grafu najdete téměr úplně vpravo. Graf je výmluvný sám o sobě.Člověk u něho s něhou pomyslí na všechny vypravěče nutnosti podporovat mladé lidi, rodiny a porodnost. Graf je…

  • 2022 v evropské sociální politice

    Výběr událostí a zpráv z evropské sociální politiky (s důrazem na lidi s postižením), které podle mého stojí za pozornost. Odkazy vedou většinou na anglické texty; pokud je třeba, např. Deepl je výborný překladač. Shrnutí roku 2021 zde. Uplynulý rok v Inclusion Europe. Ze shrnutí vynechávám věci související s ruskou válkou v Ukrajině, o nich krátce zde nebo…