Med Lagen som Verktyg

by Nathan Davidovich
Attorney at Law, Labor and Employment Law
Copyright © January 1996

Report of the CIB Expert Seminar on Building Non-Handicapping Environments, Budapest 1991

A socio-physical study towards building barrier-free urban environment in Iran

Zohereh A. Daneshpour, DBRE Research Center, Tehran, Iran
Arbel Toumeh F.M., DBRE Research Center Tehran, Iran

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Report to the ENIL Board Meeting
8th March 2003 Southampton

by Frances Hasler, 2003-03

The Department of Health has published monitoring figures for direct payments usage, based on information from September 2002. They show an overall growth in numbers since 2001 from 5423 to 7882. The most dramatic increase in take up is among carers (more than four times as many as previously). Some groups – people with learning difficulties, mental health service users and older people – have roughly doubled their numbers. Growth among people with physical impairment has been smaller – just 30%.

Report to the ENIL Board Meeting, 8th March 2003 Southampton

by John Evans, February 2003

There have been a number of developments in Independent Living and Direct Payments in the UK over the last few years. I shall try and highlight a few of the main issues.

In some respects we now have a Government that is committed to expanding Direct Payments considerably. This is actually to the extent that Direct Payments are now being made available to a number of other user groups. Please see the figures attached to this Report to give you an idea about this.

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by J.W. Duyvendak and W.B.A.M. Melief, 2001

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Background to the decision below: nine years of fighting by the European disability movement.

DISABILITY INTERGROUP
INTERGROUPE HANDICAPES
INTERGRUPPE BEHINDERTE MENSCHEN

Chair
Richard Howitt MEP (PSE)
Vice Chairs
Bartho Pronk MEP (PPE), Rodi Kratsa MEP (PPE), Dieter Koch MEP (PPE), Jan Andersson MEP (PSE), Carmen Cerdeira MEP (PSE), Liz Lynne MEP (ELDR), Brian Crowley MEP (UEN) Alain Esclopé MEP (EDD), Ilda Figueiredo MEP (GUE), Patricia McKenna MEP (VERT)

Brussels, 16 February 2001

Got a meeting abroad? How easily will your attendees with disabilities cope with the barriers?

HUMAN RIGHTS AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION

DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ACT 1992 (CTH)

H 99/115

BRUCE LINDSAY MAGUIRE

Complainant

and

SYDNEY ORGANISING COMMITTEE FOR THE OLYMPIC GAMES

Respondent

REASONS FOR DECISION

Compassion, tolerance, care for vulnerable people. “Why do these "feel good" words, mainstays of the New Tory lexicon, make some of us feel so uneasy?”

Partly it is that their synonyms are not so attractive; to think that someone is pitying you or putting up with you and that they are doing this because they see you as weak, is not a good feeling. But this is not the whole reason. It is also because these words are chosen in favour of other words - rights, equality, and services for those who need them.

After 22 years in UK, Mr Ahmed decided to bring his wife and six of his children to join him from their Asian country of origin. His eldest son was twenty years old, the youngest just three. Two daughters were married, and they remained in their country. He hoped the eldest son would find work in UK, and there would be school education for the others. He did not know what could be done for thirteen year old Imran, though he had heard there were special schools for children like him.

M. Miles,
 

THE DEAF AFGHAN CHILD ‑ I.

Counsellor:  In the past few weeks we have talked about children and young people with different disabilities. First we looked at the fingers on our hand, and saw that one of them is smaller and weaker than all the others. We do not disregard that one simply because it is small and weak. In the same way, one child out of ten, on average, has some kind of disability, and needs some extra help from its family and the local community. We heard from the parents of one such child who is mentally weaker. They were given advice on how to help their child at home. Those parents will be back in a week or two, to report how they have got along with teaching their child.

Colin Barnes
Centre for Disability Studies
School of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Leeds
LS2 9JT
England

Introduction

This presentation will discuss the thinking behind the development of 'direct payment' type schemes for personal assistants (PAs) for disabled people in the UK, and their relationship to the concept of independent living from the perspective of the disabled people's movement.

Attention will then centre on the British Government's policy on direct payments since the 1980s, followed by an examination of the current situation in terms of the distribution, accessibility and support for such schemes at the local level.

Taxi för alla | Framtidsvision | Faktaruta | Pressarkiv | Taxi site översikt

Härmed yrkar vi att länsrätten upphäver beslut i Stockholms läns landsting 7/10 2003 ang åtgärder för att få färdtjänstbudgeten i balans.

Grunden för att beslutet bör upphävas är följande:

1. Då färdtjänstnämnden behandlade det återremitterade ärendet hade man inte kommunicerat ett korrekt referat om innehållet i fullmäktiges återremiss. I detta yrkande låg krav på en opartisk ekonomisk utvärdering.

Taxi för alla | Faktaruta | Pressarkiv | Taxi site översikt

Inför upphandlingen av resetjänster inom färdtjänstbussområdet står nu återigen ord mot ord. Blir det dyrare eller billigare att låta användarna själva bestämma vem de vill åka med? Att livskvaliteten höjs och att rättviseaspekten talar för ett flexiblare system verkar alla överens om. Men när det gäller att bevisa vilken tes som håller ekonomiskt blir förvirringen total.

Om man jämför det ekonomiska utfallet som Färdtjänsten hänvisar till finner man några intressanta motsägelser. Adolf Ratzka ifrågasätter Färdtjänstens beslutsunderlag:

by Dr Jane Campbell MBE
STIL Seminar, 26th May 2003

Independent living asserts that every life is worth living; science seeking to eliminate disability is against this principle; science should make disabled life worth living, not prevent or end it.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to place qualified individuals with disabilities in community settings whenever appropriate, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Policy. This order is issued consistent with the following findings and principles:

(a) The United States is committed to community-based alternatives for individuals with disabilities and recognizes that such services advance the best interests of Americans.

(b) The United States seeks to ensure that America's community-based programs effectively foster independence and participation in the community for Americans with disabilities.

In German

Legal and financial basis

The legal basis for the Austrian long-term care benefit is the Federal Act for long-term care benefit that was introduced in 1993. The expressed purpose of this legislation is as follows: “The long-term care benefit aims at compensating additional expenditure due to long-term care in the form of a flat-rate cash benefit to ensure as far as possible necessary attendance and support for persons with need for care and to improve their possibility to live an independent life according to their needs.” (§1)

by Susanne Berg, Independent Living Institute

Let me start by thanking you all for inviting me here today.

During the last two decades of my life I have had assistance with almost all of the everyday activities “common man” does without thinking. I have spent months in hospital and rehabilitation units. I have lived in a flat connected to a service central allowing me some modicum of privacy and integrity. I have had the doubtful privilege of meeting the fifty or so personal of the “night patrol” taking turns to visit me. And since 1994 I have had personal assistance through direct payments.

Colin Barnes
Professor of Disability Studies
Centre for Disability Studies
Department of Sociology and Social Policy
The University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
England

(Statement presented to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Conference ‘Transforming Disability Into Ability’, March 6th 2003.)

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av Karen Stone

In English

Det finns mycket som talar för att en övergång från Färdtjänstbuss till Rullstolstaxi skulle

• föra över administrationskostnader och kostnader för trafikplanering, beställningscentral m.m. från landstinget/skattebetalarna till åkarna;
• spara pengar åt landstinget, alternativt möjliggöra flera resor till oförändrade kostnader;
• effektivisera utnyttjandet av såväl fordon som chaufförer;
• medföra förbättrad service, minskad väntetid och höjd livskvalitet för brukarna.

Den kalkyl som ligger till grund för min uppfattning att Rullstolstaxi är ett kostnadseffektivt, dvs billigare, alternativ till Färdtjänstbuss är baserad på ett ofullständigt dataunderlag, och bör därför tolkas med viss reservation.

Disabled Peoples' International Europe
11 Belgrave Road, London SW1V 1RB, UK
Tel: +44 207 834 0477 Fax: +44 207 821 9539
E-Mail: dpieurope@compuserve.com

På svenska

On 12/13 February 2000, 130 disabled people and parents, delegates from DPI organisations in twenty-seven countries in Europe, African, Australia and North America, met in Solihull, UK to discuss bioethics and human rights. This was the first occasion of its kind and it is with pride that we make the following declaration.

First and foremost we demand:

Nothing about us without us