Personal assistance and personal service in Sweden

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Personal assistance and personal service in Sweden

• Wenche Willumsen, Secretary of Development, DHR,
  Sweden

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background

• 1983
• Independent Living Movement (Adolf Ratzka)
• flats with support (boendeservice)
• the staff too few
• the attitudes poor
• we wanted higher quality
• we wanted better conditions

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background

• personal assistance?
• an idea too far ahead!
• influence not power or human rights
• Independent Living in Sweden
• 1989 the Swedish Government Commission on
  Disability
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the Support and Service Act

• 1994 the Support and Service Act
• advisory support
• personal assistance
• accompanying services
• personal contact
• in home relief service,
• short stay away from home
• leisure care outside school hours
• family-home or housing with special services for
  children and adolescents outside their home
• housing with special services or specially
  adapted housing for adults and
• Occupationalactivities.

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the Assistance Benefits Act

• more help than 20 hours a week for intimate needs
• basic needs
• needles eye
• govermental financial
• the same all over the country

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when the local municipality decides

• less than 20 hours basic needs per week
• different depending on where you live
• interfering
• 15.000 the Assistance Benefit Act
• 3.000 local municipality

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different ways to arrange

• local municipality
• users cooperative
• firms
• employer them self

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LSS Committee

• govermental investigation
• the Support and Service Act
• 4 years
• the costs too high
• 4 billion to 17 billion
• 3,3 billion in savings

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LSS Committee

• new system on decision making
• more details
• restrained manner
• respected as equal?
• personal service in the Support and Service Act
• 40 hours limit per week

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one law or the other?

• the Social Service Act
• reasonable living conditions
• the Support and Service Act
• good living conditions

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the end!

• we are the experts!

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we know if the shoe is too narrow!thank you!