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Rights of People with Intellectual Disabilities - Access to Education and Employment
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The Netherlands - Country overview
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NETHERLANDS - Rights of People with Intellectual Disabilities: Access to Education and EmploymentA fundamental inequality remains fixed in the Dutch education system. Most children with intellectual disabilities are still segregated into "special schools", contrary to international standards that call for children with disabilities and their parents to have the opportunity to choose inclusive education, in mainstream schools. Adults with intellectual disabilities meanwhile have very low chances of finding work on the open labour market, alongside people without disabilities. This is revealed by the monitoring report, Rights of People with Intellectual Disabilities: Access to Education and Employment in the Netherlands, released on 26 April 2006 in The Hague. Ms. K.G. Ferrier, MP and chair of the parliamentary Commission for Social Affairs and Employment, speaks; on the right, Wim van Minnen (see below) and Mr. Ch. B. Aptroot, MP and Chair of the parliamentary Commission for Education, Culture and Science. The monitoring report was produced by the Open Society Institute (EUMAP and Mental Health Initiative) in cooperation with the Dutch Federation of Societies of People with Intellectual Disabilities and their Families. It is part of a series of fourteen country reports on the rights of people with intellectual disabilities in Europe, focusing on their access to education and employment. The reports monitor the degree to which existing international standards and national legislation are heeded and applied. Each report contains a list of concrete recommendations for improving policies, and ensuring the implementation of these policies in practice. To receive a copy of the report, please use the Publication order form. Press Releases26 April 2006: "Stop the segregation of people with intellectual disabilities"
Summary ReportReporterJacqueline Schoonheim Jacqueline Schoonheim is a researcher of disability and education law, and a lecturer of private law at Maastricht University. She received her JD from the Northeastern School of Law in Massachusetts, USA, and practiced law in Texas, primarily federal class action litigation. She received her LL.M. in Comparative and European Law from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and is working towards her doctorate there. Partner NGO
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