Including people with disabilities by tearing down barriers

OLA BALKE

Handisam Swedish Agency for Disability Policy Coordination Expert Authority to the Government Director-General and 25 employees in Stockholm

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1 or 2 miljon people in Sweden Many Discrimination Benefits

The fundaments in the policy

Human Rights The Human Rights perspective – equal rights for all The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2007) Hopefully, soon, a new all-covering anti discrimination Act

A strategy for the implementation of the disability policy

Focus areas for the Strategy Labour market policy Education policy Social policy Health policy Increased physical accessibility Public transport policy IT policy Culture, Media and Sport The legal system Consumer policy

Main tasks for Handisam Accellerate the progress towards a society in which everyone can participate on equal terms regardless of functional capacity Follow up the policy Promote the implementation of the policy and support accessibility efforts Administrate consultation with the Disability Organizations

Action support accessibility Accessibility support to more than 1000 other ESF-projects Sustainability, knowingly and process- oriented in the methods Look upon the receiving part

An almost real reality… The job

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