People with disabilities less included in Dutch society than 3 years ago: report
5 years, 3 months ago

People with disabilities less included in Dutch society than 3 years ago: report

NL Times  

The position of people with disabilities in the Netherlands is deteriorating. Over the past three years, it has become more difficult for people with disabilities to fully participate in society, according to a report commissioned by the UN Convention Alliance, a collaboration of five organizations that advocate for people with disabilities, which will be handed to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva on Tuesday, Trouw reports. "You can remove all barriers, make all cafes, festivals and websites accessible, but if people with a disability don't get education, have no income, or have no roof over they heads, they will not ever get to the hospitality industry or festivals," Illya Soffer, director of IederIn, one of the participants in the UN Convention Alliance, said to Trouw. In order to prevent people with disabilities being excluded or disadvantaged, the government needs to step in, Soffer said. "City councils are dealing with addicts, nuisances, poverty, child abuse, refugees, and then you also have some people with disabilities", she said.

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Dutch society still far from equally accessible to people with disabilities
3 years, 9 months ago

Dutch society still far from equally accessible to people with disabilities

NL Times  

Five years after the Netherlands ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, people with disabilities still face obstacles that prevent them from equally participating in Dutch society. These range from physical obstacles to conscious and unconscious exclusion, social and cultural planning office SCP said in a report on accessibility, Trouw reports. Social obstacles mentioned include shopkeepers …

Efforts to incorporate special needs in Dutch education have not met expectations: report
4 years, 9 months ago

Efforts to incorporate special needs in Dutch education have not met expectations: report

Dutch News  

Efforts to provide a proper education for all children, including those with special needs, in the normal Dutch school system have not been as successful as hoped. An official evaluation of the 2014 ‘suitable education’ law, commissioned by the Dutch education ministry, suggests that the system is falling short due to bureaucracy, limited budgets and confusion about whether schools or …

Efforts to incorporate special needs in Dutch education have not met expectations: report
4 years, 9 months ago

Efforts to incorporate special needs in Dutch education have not met expectations: report

Dutch News  

Efforts to provide a proper education for all children, including those with special needs, in the normal Dutch school system have not been as successful as hoped. An official evaluation of the 2014 ‘suitable education’ law, commissioned by the Dutch education ministry, suggests that the system is falling short due to bureaucracy, limited budgets and confusion about whether schools or …

Dutch government is violating rights of disabled under UN convention
5 years, 3 months ago

Dutch government is violating rights of disabled under UN convention

Dutch News  

People with disabilities and the chronically ill are poorer, and still finding it difficult to access care, support and special education despite the ratification of the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by the Netherlands in 2016. The report states that legislation introduced in 2015 under which employers were given a bonus to employ disabled people has …

Dutch government is violating rights of disabled under UN convention
5 years, 3 months ago

Dutch government is violating rights of disabled under UN convention

Dutch News  

People with disabilities and the chronically ill are poorer, and still finding it difficult to access care, support and special education despite the ratification of the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by the Netherlands in 2016. The report states that legislation introduced in 2015 under which employers were given a bonus to employ disabled people has …

Fewer Dutch live in poverty
6 years, 3 months ago

Fewer Dutch live in poverty

NL Times  

The number of Dutch people living in poverty decreased from 1.2 million in 2013 to almost 1 million in 2016, according to social and cultural planning office SCP. That amounts to 1,139 euros per month for a single person, 1,550 euros for a couple with no children, and 1,850 per month for a couple with a child. People on welfare, …

More Dutch workers live below poverty line
6 years, 5 months ago

More Dutch workers live below poverty line

NL Times  

A growing group of working Dutch live in poverty, social and cultural planning office SCP said in a report published on Wednesday. "In that period, the decline in purchasing power of employees due to lagging wage development is probably the most important reason that the share of working poor increased", the researchers said. Self-employed without personnel, working single people, and …

More Dutch kids grow up in poverty, but fewer high school dropouts and young criminals
8 years, 1 month ago

More Dutch kids grow up in poverty, but fewer high school dropouts and young criminals

NL Times  

An increasing number of Dutch children grow up in poverty, according to Defense for Children's report Kinderen in tel 2016. Growing up in a poor family is an important predictor for other problems kids may face, according to Defense for Children. Municipalities with more kids growing up in poverty often aso have a higher percentage of single-parent homes and more …

Dutch govt. plans more aid for unqualified, unemployed young people
8 years, 2 months ago

Dutch govt. plans more aid for unqualified, unemployed young people

NL Times  

The Dutch government wants more and better organized aid for the about 66 thousand young people in the Netherlands who are unqualified and unemployed. The government instructed the involved agencies and municipalities to work together and set up Regional Registration and Coordination Points, where young people who drop out of school prematurely are registered. Each group of municipality and involved …

Over 50 pct. of Dutch with occupational disabilities are unemployed
8 years, 8 months ago

Over 50 pct. of Dutch with occupational disabilities are unemployed

NL Times  

Last year some 1.7 million people in the Netherlands between the ages of 15 and 74 years had some form of occupational disability. Of those between the ages of 25 to 45 years, the age group most active in the Dutch labor market, only 42 percent have paid work, according to figures released by Statistics Netherlands on Monday. According to …

One in eight Dutch kids grow up in poverty; Poor families set to decrease
9 years, 3 months ago

One in eight Dutch kids grow up in poverty; Poor families set to decrease

NL Times  

One in eight kids in the Netherlands are growing up in families wit low incomes, but this is slowly improving. The number of low-income households in the Netherlands is no longer increasing and may even start falling in the near future, according to Statistics Netherlands and the Central Planning Bureau on Wednesday. Next year it will drop even further to …

Up to 2.5m Dutch below poverty line
10 years, 5 months ago

Up to 2.5m Dutch below poverty line

NL Times  

According to research from Platform31/EUKN, poverty is growing in Europe and the Netherlands. In five years the percentage of Dutch people at risk of poverty or social exclusion increased from 14.9 percent to 15.9 percent. The risk of poverty and social exclusion among children increased from 15.5 percent to 17 percent in the same period. Children raised in poverty also …

New work participation law for disabled doomed to fail
12 years, 2 months ago

New work participation law for disabled doomed to fail

Dutch News  

Government plans to make companies employ a quota of disabled people, while cutting spending on reintegration projects, is a dangerous and paradoxical mix, write Nelleke Cools and Kees Cools. In future at least 5% of every company’s workforce will have to be made up of disabled people. Organisations which have never worked with disabled people before will look to their …

New work participation law for disabled doomed to fail
12 years, 2 months ago

New work participation law for disabled doomed to fail

Dutch News  

Government plans to make companies employ a quota of disabled people, while cutting spending on reintegration projects, is a dangerous and paradoxical mix, write Nelleke Cools and Kees Cools. In future at least 5% of every company’s workforce will have to be made up of disabled people. Organisations which have never worked with disabled people before will look to their …

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