Activities of the Plenipotentiary and the Office of the Government Plenipotentiary for Disabled Persons, including the issue of implemented projects to suport people with disabilities and the assessment of the level of support (historical context and curr

Abstract

The active social, professional, cultural and recreational life of people with disabilities, their approach to education and self-education, to further development and self-development depends not only on personal characteristics, experiences gained on the path to adulthood, the type of disability and its personally felt consequences. It depends to a large extent on the entire spectrum of current social support serving the autonomy and self-fulfilment of people with various types of disabilities and their individual, but also diverse expectations in terms of assistance from the state, society, and close ones. The content of this article presents an analysis of actions taken by the government plenipotentiary for people with disabilities and the Office of the Government Plenipotentiary for People with Disabilities (in the historical and current context) to enable people with disabilities to meet their educational and life needs, and overcome barriers that hinder access to full participation in social and professional life. Attention was also drawn to the provisions present in the Regulation of the Minister of Family and Social Policy of November 23, 2023 (Journal of Laws of November 28, 2023, item 2581) in the aspect of the subjective answer to the question of whether they serve to activate people with disabilities or whether they can constitute a certain limiter enslaving the desire to be active and as independent as possible.