Smart Homecare - CARER+ Final Conference, Paris, 27 March 2015

1. 27 March 2014
Luk Zelderloo
EFFE Vice-President
EASPD Secretary
General
www.easpd.eu
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2. I. EASPD in brief
II. Setting the scene
III.Pathways to future support
models
Outline
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3. I. EASPD in brief
The European Association of Service Providers for Persons
with Disabilities (EASPD) is:
 Represents over 10, 000 social services for persons with
disabilities and their umbrella associations from across
Europe
 Our main objective is to promote equal opportunities for
people with disabilities through EFFECTIVE, HIGH QUALITY
, AFFORDABLE, AVAILABLE AND ADAPTABLE social
services, based on the UN Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities.
EASPD special groups on:
 Interest Group on Person Centred Technologies
 http://easpd.eu/en/content/person-centered-technology
 Interest Group on Workforce Development and Human
Resources:
 Strengthening the workforce for people with disabilities: Initial
mapping across Europe: http://easpd.eu/en/content/european-
observatory-human-resources-getting-job-social-care-sector-what-
trends-exist-europe
 ECC: http://www.eccertificate.eu/
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4. I. EFFE in brief
• Founded in 2012, the European Federation of Family Employment
(EFFE) brings together a community of thinkers, professional decision-
makers and experts in this sector from the academic world, civil society,
regional institutions, and social partners across European Union
our aims on a European scale:
• Achieve the legal and administrative recognition from European policy-
makers and institutions of household services, family employment and
home care as an economic sector in its own right, that contributes to
European competitiveness and social cohesion.
• Bring together all professional decision- makers and experts in this sector
in Europe, combining their strengths and expertise in order to identify European
families’ needs and to find proper solutions adapted to each cultural context.
• Professionalise household service workers in Europe, increase the
attractiveness of these jobs, as well as the security and quality of services
provided, and develop a sector-specific social dialogue at the European level.
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5. II. Setting the scene:
A Changing Society
 Shift in paradigm with regard to persons with
disabilities
 Demographic change
 Economic change
 Knowledge society and ICT
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6. II. Setting the scene:
Focus on the Workforce
Key observations:
Social & Health sector employs 11% of the
workforce (3 18%)
Increase in needs= job creation potential
Overrepresentation of women (80-90%)
and over 40 years of age
Few LLL and career opportunities
Poor working conditions…working poor
Informal & black labour!
Brain drain from Eastern European
Countries
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7. II. Setting the scene:
Important employer and contributor to
European Economy
 Social and Health services sector represents
10% of EU workforce, and accounts for
between 5% and 13% of EU GDP
 Employment in the human health and social
sector accounted for over a third of all new
jobs created in EU between 2000 and 2001
 Employment in this sector was growing even
in the crisis years
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8. III. Pathways to future
support models
Personal and Household Services
Key Points:
 PHS is a positive step in the transition to
community-based services
 Undeclared work remains one of the largest
downsides of PHS
 The quality of services must be guaranteed and
monitored in order for PHS to be perceived as a
positive contributor to community-based services
 The demand for social and health services in the
PHS sector is part of an overall growing trend, with
a diminishing supply
 In order to meet the growing demand in PHS, a
stronger job market must be created through better
funding, training and social dialogue
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9. III. Pathways to future
support models
European Care Certificate
ECC:
 Is an exam-based entry level certificate in the social care sector
 Was developed through 3 European projects from 2008 till 2014
 Built around the Basic European Social Care Learning Outcomes
(BESCLO): agreed definition of what staff entering social care
services for the first time need to know as a minimum to work in
the social care sector in any member country of the EU
 ‘Translates’ how the principles of UN CRPD can be implemented in
the day-to-day care work
ECC Vision:
Anyone who is working in social care services in any EU state
will be able to study for and pass the ECC exam, sharing the
same values and knowledge base in their work, creating a
common foundation in care services across all of the EU.
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10. III. Pathways to future support models
A new relation between families and
professional support providers
From competition to partnership:
 Services of the future will combine
 Empowered families or family members can
become employers of their support staff
 New funding systems will trigger a shift in
power
 Technology will pave the way
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11. Thank you!
EASPD
Av. d’Auderghem 63 / Oudergemlaan
B – 1040 Brussels
Tel +32 2 282 46 10 – Fax +32 2 230 72 33
www.easpd.eu – info@easpd.eu
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