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Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1992, published 79th ILC session (1992)

Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983 (No. 159) - Malta (Ratification: 1988)

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The Committee has noted with interest the information supplied by the Government in its first report on the application of the Convention. It would be grateful if in its next report the Government would supply additional information on the following points:

Article 5 of the Convention. Please describe in more detail the manner in which representatives of employers and workers on the Disablement Resettlement Advisory Committee established under Section 23 of the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act, 1969, are consulted on the implementation of the national policy on vocational rehabilitation and employment of disabled persons.

Article 7. Please describe in more detail the practical measures taken for the development of vocational guidance services, vocational training courses, industrial rehabilitation courses and disablement resettlement services provided for in section 3(1) of the above 1969 Act. Please also provide information on the activities of the special employment service for disabled persons run by the Department of Health, to which reference is made in the Government's report.

Article 9. Please indicate the measures taken to ensure the availability of suitably qualified vocational rehabilitation staff.

Please also provide information on practical application of the Convention requested under Point V of the Report Form, including for example statistics, extracts from reports, studies and inquiries concerning the matters covered by the Convention. Please refer in particular to the measures taken in the framework of the current reorganisation of the welfare services to give effect to the Employment and Training Services Act, 1990, or to the follow-up given to the relevant proposals contained in the paper "A caring society in a changing world".

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