In nome della procedura?
In: Minority Reports. Cultural Disability Studies, 2019
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Residential services for persons with disabilities have been more and more requested to adopt protocols and procedures that operators have to respect. This request goes hand in hand with an all-embracing idea of these services, that are asked to offer every answer to persons’ needs. Services that, for this reason, are exposed to the risk of segregation. The existence of these provisions subtracts operators from any doubts and questions concerning some hard choices that should instead identify social and educational work, by definition always precarious between protection and emancipation. Restating that it is a fundamental element of the operator’s job to bring out, even on these themes, the point of view of persons with disabilities, it is necessary for operators of disability services to promote space of analysis and incisive thoughts on the process that these services are going through, keeping as reference point the UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (ratified by Italy with Law 18/2009). The Convention provides that “States Parties undertake to adopt all appropriate legislative, administrative and other measures for the implementation of the rights recognized in the present Convention”.