Description 

This guide is aimed at supporting member state representatives in the transposition of the directive and contracting authorities in its implementation. It also intends to facilitate the understanding of the Directive by social economy enterprises and non-profit social and health service providers.

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http://www.socialplatform.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Public_procurement_for_social_progress.pdf

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This report examines the impact of quality improvement initiatives on both services to clients and working conditions. It represents a synthesis of studies from field research in ten EU Member States with supplementary research from the remaining five.

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https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/report/2001/quality-in-social-public-services

Description 

This document seeks to disseminate new tendencies and routes as well as in the dissemination of good practices. It intends to reveal what is going on and to call the attention on the characteristics that quality management trends are showing regarding training.

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https://www.giz.de/expertise/downloads/Fachexpertise/en-tqm-vocational-training.pdf

Description 

This article discusses the principles that should guide the measurement process, the major interrogatories (i.e. who, what, when, where, why, and how) of quality of life (QOL) measurement, issues and procedures in the cross-cultural measurement of QOL, and the current uses of QOL data.  Based on the above methods, the article presents a number of important guidelines regarding QOL measurement. 

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http://es.youscribe.com/catalogue/prensa-y-revistas/conocimientos/ciencias-humanas-y-sociales/quality-of-life-and-its-measurement-important-principles-and-1829369

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The purpose of this paper is to describe how the quality of life concept for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities has influenced policies and practices within the field and has become a framework for organization and systems change.

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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/293078052_Quality_of_life_as_a_change_agent

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This document introduces new EASPD's focus on further reaching out persons with disabilities, its members and allies, as well as other stakeholders such as the European institutions. The strategic decisions and measures will also be converted into concrete actions in EASPD's annual action plans for 2014 to 2017.

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http://www.easpd.eu/en/content/reaching-out-easpd-strategic-choices-2014-2017-building-inclusive-society

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This study provides an overview of the policy measures in place to encourage and support the employment of people with disabilities and in particular: sheltered workshops; reasonable accommodations; alternative labour market policies. It provides information on developments on costs and returns of investment for these measures, detailed descriptions of the situation in six Member States (Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom) and an economic analysis of selected measures. 

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http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2015/536295/IPOL_STU(2015)536295_EN.pdf

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http://www.rofa.org.uk/category/uk-disabled-peoples-manifesto/

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This publication outlines the Social Platform’s recommendations to the EU leaders on quality social and health services. It first discusses the current state of play regarding social and health services, then the preconditions necessary to achieve quality. There is an optimal methodology to reach this goal, and lastly the nine principles required for quality social and health services.

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http://www.socialplatform.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2008_SocialPlatform_Nine_Principles_EN.pdf  

Description 

This is a report on the Implementation of the UNCRPD and it covers the period from the entry into force of the  UNCRPD for the EU in January 2011 to December 2013.

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http://ec.europa.eu/justice/discrimination/files/swd_2014_182_en.pdf