Disabled children to get better access to care, education services
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a national project designed to give children with disabilities better access to community-based protection, care and education services from 2018 – 2025.
Disabled children will have better access to community-based protection, care and education services thanks to a project recently approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuchas approved a national project designed to give children with disabilitiesbetter access to community-based protection, care and education services from2018 – 2025.
The project strives to have all children withdisabilities gain access to community-based protection, care and educationservices by 2025 which enable them to better integrate into society andexercise their rights.
From 2018 – 2020, it aims to provide at least 70 percentof disabled children with access to those services and 50 percent of them withnecessary knowledge and skills for social integration. At the same time, atleast 60 percent of parents of children with disabilities and 70 percent of socialworkers involved in child protection, care and education services will be equipped with essential expertise andskills to work with disabled children.
The project also looks to set up networks of community-basedprotection, care and education services for children with disabilities andpilot new disabled child support services in at least 50 percent of cities andprovinces across the country.
To this end, the project will educate people on theState’s policies and law regarding children with disabilities and raiseawareness among their families and the society of the importance ofcommunity-based protection, care and education services to them.
It will expand services related to healthcare, nutrition,education, vocational training, rehabilitation, psychological counselling,child protection and social integration, and pilot models to assist withdisable children’s access to such services.
Furthermore, the project will improve legal framework andpolicies to better support these vulnerable children in gaining access to suchservices and strengthen supervision and inspection of enforcement ofregulations and policies for these children to have better access to suchcommunity-based services.
It is estimated that Vietnam has about 6.7 million peoplewith disabilities, of which 1.3 million are children.
These children face obstacles to accesseducation, leaving the majority of them with a low level of education and fewjob opportunities. They also struggle to access healthcare, vocational trainingand consultations on job searching, legal assistance and recreationalactivities. –VNA
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Disabled children will have better access to community-based protection, care and education services thanks to a project recently approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. (Photo: VNA)
