2005 Throughout Europe, people with intellectual disabilities face overwhel- Croatia Rights of People with Intellectual Disabilities ming stigma and prejudice and encounter significant barriers to realising their fundamental rights. EUMAP, the EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program of the Open Society Institute, in cooperation with the Open Society Mental Health Initiative, has monitored this situation in 14 countries throughout Europe, both EU members and candidate countries: Rights of People with Bulgaria; Croatia; the Czech Republic; Estonia; Greece; Hungary; Latvia; Lithuania; the Netherlands; Poland; Romania; Slovakia; Slovenia and the Intellectual Disabilities UK. Carried out by local experts and civil society groups, the monitoring focuses on the extent to which people with intellectual disabilities have Access to Education access to education and employment. This series of reports presents the findings of the monitoring and also makes recommendations for impro- and Employment ving the social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities. The reports are also available at www.eumap.org. CROATIA Monitoring Report Hrvatska Prava osoba s intelektualnim tekoæama HRVATSKA Prava osoba s Diljem Europe osobe s intelektualnim tekoæama izrazito su stigmatizi- rane, suoèavaju se s predrasudama te nailaze na ogromne prepreke u intelektualnim tekoæama ostvarivanju svojih temeljnih prava. EUMAP, ( EU Program Monitoringa i zastupanja Instituta Otvoreno drutvo, u Pristup obrazovanju suradnji s Inicijativom za Mentalno zdravlje, pratio je poloaj ovih osoba u 14 zemalja Europe, kako èlanicama EU tako i zemljama kandidatki- i zapoljavanju njama: u Bugarskoj; Hrvatskoj; Èekoj; Estoniji; Grèkoj; Maðarskoj; Latviji; Litvi; Nizozemskoj; Poljskoj; Rumunjskoj; Slovaèkoj; Sloveniji i Ujedinjenom Kraljevstvu). Monitoring kojeg su provodili lokalni struènjaci i organi- zacije civilnog drutva usredotoèen je na stvaran doseg pristupa ove skupi- ne osoba obrazovanju i zapoljavanju. U ovoj seriji izvjeæa predstavljeni su nalazi monitoringa, ali su dane i preporuke za unapreðivanje socijalne Izvjeæe o monitoringu inkluzije osoba s intelektualnim tekoæama. Izvjeæa su dostupna i na www.eumap.org. OSI 2005 HRVATSKA Rights of People with Intellectual Disabilities Access to Education and Employment CROATIA Monitoring Report HRVATSKA Prava osoba s intelektualnim tekoæama Pristup obrazovanju i zapoljavanju Izvjeæe o monitoringu EUMAP EU MONITORING AND ADVOCACY PROGRAM 20051 OPEN SOCIETY MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE Published by OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE Október 6. u. 12. H-1051 Budapest Hungary 400 West 59th Street New York, NY 10019 USA © OSI/EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program, 2005 All rights reserved. TM and Copyright © 2005 Open Society Institute EU MONITORING AND ADVOCACY PROGRAM Október 6. u. 12. H-1051 Budapest Hungary Website <www.eumap.org> Copies of the book can be ordered from the EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program <[email protected]> Printed by Kratis, Zagreb, Croatia, 2005 Design & Layout by Q.E.D. Publishing Rights of People with Intellectual Disabilities Access to Education and Employment Croatia MONITORING ACCESS TO EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT Table of Contents Acknowledgements ........................................................................ 5 Preface ........................................................................................... 9 Foreword ..................................................................................... 11 I. Executive Summary and Recommendations .......................... 13 1. Executive Summary ......................................................... 13 2. Recommendations ........................................................... 17 II. Country Overview and Background ...................................... 22 1. Legal and Administrative Framework .............................. 22 1.1 International obligations ........................................... 22 1.2 Domestic legislation and policy ................................ 23 2. General Situation of People with Disabilities ................... 27 2.1 Definitions ............................................................... 27 2.2 Diagnosis of disability ............................................... 29 2.3 Guardianship ............................................................ 29 2.4 Statistical data ........................................................... 33 2.5 Deinstitutionalisation ............................................... 34 III. Access to Education .............................................................. 36 1. Legal Framework ............................................................. 36 1.1 The right to education .............................................. 36 1.2 Structure and administration of the school system .... 37 1.3 Assessment of disability for educational purposes ...... 40 1.4 Early intervention ..................................................... 42 2. Government Educational Policy ...................................... 45 2.1 The EU and Government educational policy ............ 45 2.2 Development of education policy ............................. 46 3. Education in Practice ...................................................... 48 3.1 Resources and support .............................................. 48 2 OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE 2005 CROATIA 3.3.1 Curricula and support .................................... 48 3.1.2 Teacher training ............................................ 51 3.2 Inclusive education ................................................... 52 3.2.1 Pre-school ...................................................... 52 3.2.2 Mainstreaming .............................................. 54 3.2.3 Special schools ............................................... 55 3.3 Education outside the school system ......................... 57 3.3.1 Home schooling ............................................ 57 3.3.2 Education of children in institutions .............. 57 4. Transition from Education to Employment ..................... 58 4.1 Vocational training ................................................... 58 4.2 Adult or life-long education ...................................... 61 4.3 Employment Services ................................................ 62 IV. Access to Employment .......................................................... 63 1. Legal and Administrative Framework ............................... 63 1.1 National legislation ................................................... 63 1.2 Capacity assessment for employment and benefits purposes .................................................................... 65 1.2.1 Assessment for social welfare benefits ............. 65 1.2.2 Assessment for work capacity ......................... 67 1.3 The role of the social welfare system .......................... 69 2. Government Employment Policy ..................................... 70 2.1 The EU and Government employment policy ........... 70 2.2 Development of Government employment policies ... 71 2.3 Government requirements and incentives for employment .............................................................. 73 3. Employment in Practice ................................................... 74 3.1 Statistical information ............................................... 75 3.2 Supported employment on the open market .............. 76 3.3 The sheltered workplace ............................................ 77 V. Conclusions .......................................................................... 78 EUMAP – EU MONITORING AND ADVOCACY PROGRAM OPEN SOCIETY MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE 3 MONITORING ACCESS TO EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT Annex 1. Legislation cited in the report ....................................... 82 Annex 2. Bibliography ................................................................. 84 4 OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE 2005 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Acknowledgements The EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program of the Open Society Institute and the Open Society Mental Health Initiative would like to acknowledge the primary role of the following individuals in researching and drafting these monitoring reports. Final responsibility for the content of the reports rests with EUMAP. Bulgaria Slavka Kukova Bulgarian Helsinki Committee Croatia Ljiljana Pintarić Mlinar University of Zagreb, Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation Czech Republic Jan Šiška Charles University, Faculty of Education Estonia Agne Raudmees EVPIT - Estonian Mentally Disabled People Support Organization Greece John Tsiantis, and Association for the Psychosocial Health Harris Asimopoulos, of Children and Adolescents (APHCA) Stavroula Diareme, Dimitra Giannakopoulou, Gerasimos Kolaitis, Eugenia Soumaki, Konstantinos Thiveos, Evangelos Zacharias Hungary Emese Kôvágó Salva Vita Foundation Latvia Ieva Leimane-Veldmeijere Latvian Centre for Human Rights and Ethnic Studies Lithuania Dovile Juodkaitė Lithuanian Welfare Society for People and Klementina Gečaitė with Intellectual Disability – Viltis Netherlands Jacqueline Schoonheim University of Maastricht, Faculty of Law Poland Ewa Wapiennik Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education, Warsaw Romania Raluca Nica Romanian League for Mental Health Slovakia Alexandra Bražinová League for Mental Health and Viera Zahorcová Inclusion Slovakia Slovenia Darja Zaviršek University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social and Špela Urh Work EUMAP – EU MONITORING AND ADVOCACY PROGRAM OPEN SOCIETY MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE 5 MONITORING ACCESS TO EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT United Kingdom Stephen Beyer Welsh Centre for