#BETHESHIFT: from institutions to community-based settings
The campaign #BeTheSHIFT kicked off on the 28th November 2019 with the launch of the S.H.I.F.T. Guide.
#BETHESHIFT: from institutions to community-based settings
#BeTheSHIFT
#BETHESHIFT: from institutions to community-based settings
#BETHESHIFT: from institutions to community-based settings
The campaign #BeTheSHIFT kicked off on the 28th November 2019 with the launch of the S.H.I.F.T. Guide.
Key findings: Expert meeting on inclusive education
Key findings: Expert meeting on inclusive education
In March 2023, taking the Italian system as a starting point for discussion with European peers, we brought together organisations of families of persons with disabilities and service providers, education professionals, persons with disabilities and their families and policy-makers from several countries to examine key actions to implement inclusive education.
COFACE Disability Platform puts the spotlight on Children with Disabilities: Breaking policy silos to better support children with disabilities and their families
COFACE Disability Platform puts the spotlight on Children with Disabilities: Breaking policy silos to better support children with disabilities and their families
In the run-up to the 2022 International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the COFACE Disability Platform for the rights of persons with disabilities and their families is launching a policy brief looking at how children with disabilities are represented in recent EU Social Policy Frameworks. With this brief COFACE Disability wants to launch a reflection on the intersection between disability and age and how to integrate it into policies and programmes. For this EU Year of Youth COFACE Disability has focused this brief on Children with Disabilities and their families.
POLICY BRIEF. Breaking policy silos to better support children with disabilities and their families
POLICY BRIEF. Breaking policy silos to better support children with disabilities and their families
The aim of this policy brief is to take stock of how children with disabilities are covered in EU social policies, and to launch a broader reflection on how to deepen the interaction between disability and age in policy making.
The Family Dimension of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
The Family Dimension of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
This publication adopted ten years ago in 2012 consists of the COFACE position on the family dimension of the UNCRPD, followed by the integral text of the Convention.
Family Organisations welcome the European Care Strategy and call for swift adoption by EU Social Affairs Ministers
Family Organisations welcome the European Care Strategy and call for swift adoption by EU Social Affairs Ministers
Media statement. Brussels, 8th September 2022. COFACE Families Europe welcomes yesterday’s adoption by the European Commission of the European Care Strategy. With this decision, set in the framework of the Action Plan on the European Pillar of Social...
New Deal for Families of Today: Easy-to-read version
New Deal for Families of Today: Easy-to-read version
We are an organisation that works for the rights of all families in Europe since 1958. In short, we are called ‘COFACE’. We wrote this easy-to-read booklet to talk about our aims for 2020-2024.