OPINION: When family carers step in, who steps up for them?
I don’t exactly remember the moment I became a carer. There was no conversation, no handbook.
OPINION: When family carers step in, who steps up for them?
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Take a look at our Opinion series, with individual voices from inside and outside COFACE, providing different perspectives and insights on topics relevant for families of today.
OPINION – Creating the conditions for families to thrive
OPINION – Creating the conditions for families to thrive
Families are under enormous pressure in today’s society. This is not simply about individual choices or a lack of resilience, but about the conditions in which families are expected to manage everyday life.
OPINION – Integrated services for persons with disabilities in Italy: from theory to practice
OPINION – Integrated services for persons with disabilities in Italy: from theory to practice
For about 15 years, I was active at the National Disability Observatory established by the Ministry of Welfare, and I must say that I found it very frustrating to work on the “restructuring plan” that never came into effect in those 15 years.
OPINION: As our online and offline worlds intertwine, should digital policy be a stand-alone field?
OPINION: As our online and offline worlds intertwine, should digital policy be a stand-alone field?
it might be useful to stop treating digital policy as a stand-alone field. Digital issues encompass educational policy, (mental)health policy, social policy, cultural policy, judicial policy, youth policy, and much more.
OPINION: This crisis has highlighted the communication barriers of deaf people
OPINION: This crisis has highlighted the communication barriers of deaf people
Communication with deaf people who are ill or in poor health is also one of our priorities during this health emergency.
OPINION: When the rat race stops
OPINION: When the rat race stops
Being stuck at home, everyone has now time to ponder and reflect whether this rat race even makes sense in the first place.
OPINION: Extraordinary COVID-19 parental leave for all European parents during confinement?
OPINION: Extraordinary COVID-19 parental leave for all European parents during confinement?
Families around Europe live the same difficulties. They should unite in a same demand: parental leave for working parents during the confinement.
OPINION: Getting through the COVID-19 storm – how to communicate with our children?
OPINION: Getting through the COVID-19 storm – how to communicate with our children?
Never before, have I experienced a situation where human behaviour is so greatly affected that it results in feelings of anxiety isolation and uncertainty everywhere.
OPINION: A time of transitions, experiments and reinvention? Notes from Brussels in lockdown.
OPINION: A time of transitions, experiments and reinvention? Notes from Brussels in lockdown.
We at COFACE are part of this imposed experiment with the Brussels-based team, through decentralised working, agreeing on key tasks to be achieved over the next month, and using technology to connect bilaterally or with the full team.