Overview of institutional services for persons with disabilities (2014) Introduction and preliminary remarks There are several notes that need to be made at the beginning: The researchers included in the table also the so called “residential community-based services” with a note after the name of the institution/service in the first column. They did that as many of them actually function as institutions and are located in the buildings or in the yards of institutions. There is no official publicly available information about the number of these types of quasi community-based services. However, NGO reports mention this: Bulgaria, Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, Human Rights in Bulgaria in 2011, Annual Report, p.55 (for services for adults with mental disabilities), p.62 (for child care services for children with and without disabilities), available in English at: , Bulgaria, Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, Rights in Bulgaria in 2013, Annual Report, p. 65, available in English at: . The majority of institutions/community-based services that are not specifically designed to accommodate children or adults with disabilities in fact accommodate people with various types of disabilities. This applies for social care homes for children deprived of parental care for example or to social care homes for old people, or the crisis centres for children and adults. Again there is no official publicly available data about this. The majority of the institutions were set up during 1960s. However, no source of information was found to be referred to. In the institutions for adults the length of admission is usually till the end of their lives.
Overview of institutional services for persons with disabilities (2014) Introduction and preliminary remarks There are several notes that need to be made at the beginning: The researchers included in the table also the so called “residential community-based services” with a note after the name of the institution/service in the first column. They did that as many of them actually function as institutions and are located in the buildings or in the yards of institutions. There is no official publicly available information about the number of these types of quasi community-based services. However, NGO reports mention this: Bulgaria, Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, Human Rights in Bulgaria in 2011, Annual Report, p.55 (for services for adults with mental disabilities), p.62 (for child care services for children with and without disabilities), available in English at: , Bulgaria, Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, Rights in Bulgaria in 2013, Annual Report, p. 65, available in English at: . The majority of institutions/community-based services that are not specifically designed to accommodate children or adults with disabilities in fact accommodate people with various types of disabilities. This applies for social care homes for children deprived of parental care for example or to social care homes for old people, or the crisis centres for children and adults. Again there is no official publicly available data about this. The majority of the institutions were set up during 1960s. However, no source of information was found to be referred to. In the institutions for adults the length of admission is usually till the end of their lives.
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