In Italy, the full and concrete affirmation of the right to independent living is making inroads at the regional level
The news is of these hours, the Regional Council of Lombardy has just unanimously approved the Draft Regional Law n. 222, “Regional social welfare policies for the recognition of the right to independent life and social inclusion of all people with disabilities”. A path that first saw the involvement of the entire associative network of the Region and, subsequently, the opening of an interlocution with the Regional Council and with all the council groups (majority and opposition) which led to the drafting of a transversal and shared draft law «The new Regional Law – comment the Lombard activists – concretely paves the way for the right to independent life, putting all people with disabilities in a position to be able to choose what to do with their lives, guaranteeing the same possibility of choice that all other citizens have. The individual Life Project (participated and personalized), the multidimensional assessment and the project budget, as an integral part of the Life Project itself, in which the resources necessary to implement it are identified, are the three pillars on which the new legislation. Through the Independent Life Project, therefore, the new Regional Law puts one of the most important issues at the centre, that is, the possibility of bringing out and highlighting the interests, needs, desires and preferences of each person. And around these to build a project that allows them to be translated into reality.». The text of the law provides for a significant revision of the financing system and functioning of the network of social-health and social-welfare units for people with disabilities, so that they can allow and promote the right to independent life and social inclusion, a guarantee living conditions such as to concretely realize the individual Project of Independent Living and avoid isolation and segregation. «We are satisfied and excited – they add – this vote represents the achievement of a goal we have been working on for more than three years: that is, to guarantee all people with disabilities the right to live in society with the same freedom of choice as other people. Now the process of implementing the legislation begins with the implementing decrees which will be approved within 180 days, and the activation of initiatives to present and make known the new law to all the associations in the region» As a San Marino association, we consider it useful and It is important to report this news, as a possible object of evaluation and/or contribution for the constituting Working Group for the affirmation of Independent Life in San Marino.
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