Active Social Policy and System of Professional Support in Social Sector Towards People with Disabilities Cover Image

Aktywna polityka społeczna i system wsparcia zawodowego w sektorze społecznym wobec osób z niepełnosprawnością
Active Social Policy and System of Professional Support in Social Sector Towards People with Disabilities

Author(s): Katarzyna Zielińska-Król
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Welfare services
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: active social policy; professional support; disabled persons; employment of people with disabilities

Summary/Abstract: The rights of persons with disabilities to participate in social life include the right to employment and participation in labor market. In Poland, the law does not fully implemented and restrictions on professional activation are stuck on both the system and on the side of people with disabilities and employers. Currently in the area of activities for disabled persons waived from the medical model which treats people with disabilities as an object interactions institution for the social approach, recognizing their rights and duties on an equal basis with others. The proposed new − active − social policy model, based on civil rights contrasts with the previous one, in which the indexed needs (social) disabled people and pointed the way to satisfy them. The postulate of professional activation of persons with disabilities refers to activities aimed at strengthening labor market and employment opportunities of individuals. Active social policy (APS) is focused on the activities of public incentives for individuals to enter and remain in the labor market through the development of instruments to increase the capacity of employment and reducing demotivating function termination benefits (support conditional).The aim of the article is to present the most important assumptions of the APS in respect of the activities related to the employment of people with disabilities and also analyze support that group in the area of social economy.

  • Issue Year: 64/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 25-42
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish