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"As you are aware, social policy, including policy relating to people with disabilities, is primarily a national responsibility. However, stepping up support for disadvantaged groups and, in particular, for people with disabilities, including people living in institutions, is a key strand for action under the European Social Fund.
According to some estimates, people with disabilities account for at least 16% of the EU working age population, but only 40% of people with disabilities are employed. The Commission encourages a shift from institutional to community-based care and is working closely with the Member States and, in particular, the managing authorities of the ESF and the ERDF and NGOs in this field.
In 2009, the Commission published a report by an ad hoc expert group on the switchover from institutional to community-based care. In line with the principle of shared management, the Member States are responsible for selecting operations for financing under the structural funds.
In the current programming period, the European Social and Regional Development Funds are supporting some de-institutionalisation schemes and the switch-over from residential care to community-based services. This is particularly true in certain Member States that joined the EU after 2004. Thus, projects are being financed in Bulgaria and Slovakia.
As you know, the Commission is currently working on new provisions on the structural funds for the post-2013 period and will put forward proposals in 2011. To step up the fight against discrimination and promote social inclusion of people with disabilities, future operational programmes may, for example, be required to identify the groups at risk of discrimination and exclusion. The Commission will explore the role that national equality bodies could play and may consider stricter requirements on Member States’ reporting of measures to combat discrimination, implemented with support from the structural funds.
In addition, one of the aims of the European Disability Strategy for 2010 to 2020, which the Commission adopted on 15 November, is to give impetus to Member States’ efforts to ease the transition from institutional to community-based care. The strategy seeks to do this by identifying good practice in using the structural funds to encourage people to live independently and in the community and aims to develop awareness-raising initiatives that target structural fund managing bodies at EU and national level. For example, a toolkit on how to use the structural funds to support the development of community-based services will be developed for the managing authorities."@en1
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