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Please submit evidence to this enquiry by October 21st if you use care and support
or Personal Assistants or are a parent of someone who uses these services. It
is important that individuals let the rapporteur know what has happened since
the closure of the ILF both to new applicants in 2010 and to all in 2015 and
due to the cuts to Local Authority funding.
Questionnaire
on the “provision
of support to persons with disabilities” – Call for submissions
The Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Ms.
Catalina Devandas-Aguilar, is currently preparing a study, to be presented at
the 34th session of the Human Rights Council in March 2017, on the provision of support to persons with disabilities.
The Special Rapporteur welcomes inputs, in
accessible formats (Word), in English, French, Russian or
Spanish, from Member States, international and regional organizations, UN
agencies, funds and programmes, organizations of and for persons with disabilities,
civil society, national human rights institutions and other national
independent mechanisms designated or established to monitor the implementation
of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, disability or
equality Ombudspersons, scholars, research institutions and policy think tanks,
private sector businesses and networks, community movements, and private
individuals, to provide information on the provision of support to persons
with disabilities.
Submissions should be sent by e-mail to the address sr.disability@ohchr.org no
later than 21 October 2016. Concise responses
are encouraged, inclusive of relevant attachments where available.
Kindly indicate if
you have any objections with regard to your reply being posted on this website.
Questionnaire on the provision of support to persons with disabilities
Please provide
information on the following services that are available for persons with
disabilities in your country, including data on their coverage, geographic
distribution and delivery arrangements, funding and sustainability, challenges
and shortcoming in their implementation:
1. Personal assistance;
2. In-home, residential
and community support;
3. Support in
decision-making, including peer support; and
4. Communication
support, including support for augmentative and alternative communication.
5 Please
explain how persons with disabilities can access information about the existing
services referred to in question one, including referral procedures,
eligibility criteria and application requirements.
6 Please elaborate on
how these services respond to the specific needs of persons with disabilities
throughout their life cycle (infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and
older age) and how is service delivery ensured in the transition periods
between life cycle stages.
7 Please provide
information on the number of certified sign language interpreters and deafblind
interpreters available in your country.
8 Please
provide information on the existence of any partnership between State
institutions and private service providers (e.g., non-governmental
organizations, for-profit service providers) for the provision of support to
persons with disabilities.
9 Please
describe to what extent and how are persons with disabilities and their
representative organizations involved in the design, planning, implementation
and evaluation of support services.
10 Please provide any
other relevant information and statistics (including surveys, censuses,
administrative data, reports, and studies) related to the provision of support
to persons with disabilities in your country.
Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC)
Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC)
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