(c) Vocational rehabilitation of disabled persons

Currently there are 2 occupational rehabilitation centres in Latvia the Republican Rehabilitation Centre (RRC) and the Vocational Training and Rehabilitation Centre (VTRC) Alsviķi.

Occupational qualification categories were determined by the Cabinet of Ministers.

On 28 August 2001 the CM adopted Regulation No. 383 On Procedure for Receiving Occupational Rehabilitation Services and Requirements for Providers of Occupational Rehabilitation Services, defining requirements for providers of occupational rehabilitation services and the procedure for receiving the said services.

Further KPC professionalization is needed, including a streamlined and effective command structure.

The mother must be told where the child is being kept and the implementing regulation will determine the procedure for allowing the mother to see the child on a regular basis.

Table 4 Vocational, technical and teacher training services

(e) Provision of rehabilitation services to persons with disabilities

Convention concerning Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment of Disabled Persons (No. 159)

The Republican Rehabilitation Centre provides appropriate vocational training and rehabilitation services to the persons with disabilities.

Fourteen per cent offered no rehabilitation services.

The VTRC Alsviķi is an institution of occupational rehabilitation, subordinated to the Ministry of Welfare.

(i) To promote vocational and professional rehabilitation, job retention and return to work programmes for persons with disabilities.

5) services for the recovery of the ability of work and the integration of victims into the society medical treatment, care, medical rehabilitation, retraining, occupational rehabilitation

100. A number of missions were undertaken by regional advisers in the fields of employment and development, vocational training, employers apos activities, workers apos activities, vocational rehabilitation and women workers apos questions.

In 2001 LVL 637,649 were expended on occupational rehabilitation for the persons with disabilities, providing occupational rehabilitation to 288 people per year.

2. States Parties shall ensure that persons with disabilities are not held in slavery or in servitude, and are protected, on an equal basis with others, from forced or compulsory labour.

Rehabilitation encompasses counselling, training in self care, provision of aids and devices, specialized education, vocational rehabilitation and others.

3. States Parties shall promote the availability, knowledge and use of assistive devices and technologies, designed for persons with disabilities, as they relate to habilitation and rehabilitation.

States Parties shall promote the development of initial and continuing training for professionals and staff working in habilitation and rehabilitation services.

The head of the Division also provides a professional head for the United Nations uniformed security service personnel.

Vocational and higher education services were also transferred to within that framework.

(a) Habilitation and rehabilitation services and programmes begin at the earliest possible stage, and are based on the multidisciplinary assessment of individual needs

(f) To improve vocational training, counselling and placement services, paying particular attention to groups of vulnerable women, including the unemployed

12. The concept and scope of rehabilitation, another major theme of the World Programme, evolved during the Decade so that greater emphasis is now placed on disabled persons and their families participating in the design, organization and evaluation of rehabilitation services concerning them, particularly in community based rehabilitation.

The Fund will also provide medical and rehabilitation services and will be financed by the Government and the international donor community.

Article 18 of the same Act stipulates The Ministry of the Interior and the authorities responsible for education and instruction shall jointly design the educational curricula to be used in prisons and detention centres. The implementing regulation defines the rules and procedures for allowing prisoners and detainees to sit examinations at different stages of education.

1.160 25,000 refugees with disabilities will have been served by Community Rehabilitation Centres utilizing the Community Based Rehabilitation approach.

The Committee is also concerned at the lack of vocational training or rehabilitation programmes for those below 18 who have been detained.

The occupational rehabilitation of persons with disabilities should be viewed as one of the most topical groups of activities for ensuring an appropriate social functioning of persons with disabilities.

(g) To ensure that extension services and vocational training for agriculture reach both women and men in an equitable manner

The project objective was to bring together designers, manufacturers, rehabilitation experts and users to identify and analyse the status of rehabilitation services, provision of technical aids and assistive technologies, and development of market potential for rehabilitation.

If the mother does not want to keep the child with her or once the child reaches the aforementioned age, the child shall be entrusted to the care of the father or the person after the mother who is legally entitled to custody. If the child has no father or relatives, he or she shall be placed in a children's home.

In 2004, the first seminars were organised for specialists who will offer rehabilitation services to violent men.

The possibilities of the unemployed to receive vocational training, requalification and upgrading of qualifications are provided by the State Employment agency (see the table below).

Article 26. Habilitation and rehabilitation

In the field of rehabilitation, similar Rehabilitation Centres (Public Law institutions) operate all over the country, aiming at the physical, functional, and social rehabilitation, as well as education, vocational training, planning and implementing programmes in the field of disability.

The State provides equal opportunities to the worker to acquire a profession, provides vocational guidance services and is helping to create new jobs.

The union also takes care of workers' vacation conditions, rehabilitation and recreation, as well as the provision of heating and winter food reserves.

WHO also carried out six inter country workshops on strategies for improving rehabilitation services.

f The total number of individuals served by community based rehabilitation centres includes 520 from the Rehabilitation Centre for the Visually Impaired.

The services and amenities established for disabled persons are set forth in article 4.

(c) The State encourages the provision of additional social services to enable parents to combine the fulfillment of family responsibilities with their job and with participation in public life.

An occupational therapist, recruited and financed through local non governmental organizations, joined the team of specialist advisers assisting the volunteer rehabilitation workers.

On the level of PZZ, there are 35 centers for rehabilitation in the community (CBR) in function.