{"id":5829,"date":"2023-10-02T13:50:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T11:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sapport.ppdevplayground.com\/?page_id=5829"},"modified":"2025-06-13T09:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T07:05:09","slug":"personal-assistance-reform","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sapport.gov.mt\/mt\/personal-assistance-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Assistance Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tabs-text align\">\n    <div id=\"tabs-text-block_9ec4ee5e1ed46798c00484436961d495\" class=\"block-tabs-text\">\n\n    <div class=\"blend-mode luminosity\">\n                <div class=\"img inline-bg-image lazyload\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"\" style=\"background-image:inherit;\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/sapport.gov.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Maleck-e1727275672285.png)\"><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"inner np flex-columns stretch\">\n        <div class=\"col-35 left-side\">\n\n            \n            <p class=\"breadcrumbs\"><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/sapport.gov.mt\/mt\/\">Pa\u0121na<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n            <h1 class=\"h1 white\">Personal Assistance Reform<\/h1>\n\n            \n                        <ul id=\"tabs-nav\" class=\"tabs-nav\">\n                \n                    <li class=\"tab-title\">\n                        <a id=\"personal-assistance-reform\" href=\"#tabs-content\" data-tab=\"#tab1\" class=\"tab-nav\">Personal Assistance Reform<\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n            \n                \n                    <li class=\"tab-title\">\n                        <a id=\"background\" href=\"#tabs-content\" data-tab=\"#tab2\" class=\"tab-nav\">Background<\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n            \n                \n                    <li class=\"tab-title\">\n                        <a id=\"riorsi\" href=\"#tabs-content\" data-tab=\"#tab3\" class=\"tab-nav\">Ri\u017corsi<\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n            \n                \n                    <li class=\"tab-title\">\n                        <a id=\"testimonjanzi\" href=\"#tabs-content\" data-tab=\"#tab4\" class=\"tab-nav\">Testimonjanzi<\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n            \n                            <\/ul>\n                    <\/div>\n\n        <div class=\"col-65 right-side\">\n            \n                        <div id=\"tabs-content\" class=\"tabs-content\">\n                                <div id=\"tab1\" class=\"tab-content\">\n                    <h2 class=\"h4\">Personal Assistance Reform: Laying the foundations for a personal budgets system for persons with disabilities<\/h2>\n                    <div class=\"post-content\"><p>As part of its 2021-2030 National Strategy on the Rights of Disabled Persons, Malta is taking steps to developing a Personal Assistance Reform that will establish the groundwork for personal budgets and will align services for persons with disabilities with the principles of independent living and self-directed support.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This reform represents a significant step towards empowering persons with disabilities to exercise their rights to independent living in the community, with the rightful and respectful choice, control, and flexibility surrounding how they use, and manage, the support of personal assistance and the access to other services, tools and equipment that contribute towards their independent living throughout their lives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is done by allowing them to utilise their allocated subsidies to engage personalised assistance services that best suit their needs. Their choices will be guided by their Individualised Support Plan, taking into account their unique lifestyle, preferences, and requirements.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The personal assistance reform is being rolled out in stages, having finalised a series of consultative meetings, planning of the reform and drafting of pertinent policies, launching and concluding a public consultation, meeting stakeholders for the design and dissemination of a personal assistance user\u2019s charter and job description, serving as a guide for users, personal assistants and supporting networks. Other stages are being designed and developed with the intention that Malta will gradually begins introducing personal budgets in 2030.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Personal Assistance Reform Project by A\u0121enzija Sapport was shortlisted for the ESN European Social Services Awards 2024 – Excellence in Communities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Personal Assistance Reform - Maleck Haj Moussa\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WC4TUroKZxM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n                                            \n                <\/div>\n                                <div id=\"tab2\" class=\"tab-content\">\n                    <h2 class=\"h4\">Background<\/h2>\n                    <div class=\"post-content\"><p>In preparation for this reform, A\u0121enzija Sapport engaged in consultations with persons with disability using the services in Malta, the Directorate for Disability Issues (Malta), the Commission for the Rights of Persons with Disability (Malta), the Malta Federation of Organisations Persons with Disability (Malta), Agency staff members, the Independent Community Living Board (Malta), the European Network on Independent Living (ENIL, Brussels).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This personal assistance reform and plans for establishing a personal budgets system will further contribute to aligning Malta\u2019s disability services landscape with the UNCRPD Article 19 and its General Comment No. 5 and with the Guidelines on deinstitutionalisation, including in emergencies (2022).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The target group is youth and adults with disabilities. Various professionals will be involved in the delivery of this project, including personal assistants engaged by persons with disabilities, Social Workers and other professionals who work with personal assistance users.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A public consultation process was launched in October 2023 to gather the views of persons with disabilities and relevant stakeholders, upon which plans for the reform were based.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n                                            \n                <\/div>\n                                <div id=\"tab3\" class=\"tab-content\">\n                    <h2 class=\"h4\">Ri\u017corsi<\/h2>\n                    <div class=\"post-content\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/sapport.gov.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Reform_Strategy_FINAL-single-pages.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ag\u0127fas fuq din il-\u0127olqa biex tni\u017c\u017cel kopja tad-dokument ta’ Konsultazzjoni Pubblika<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sapport.gov.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Assistenza-Personali.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ag\u0127fas fuq din il-\u0127olqa biex tni\u017c\u017cel kopja tad-Deskrizzjoni \u0120enerika tal-Impjieg\u00a0u l-karta tad-Drittijiet u r-Responsabilitajiet tal-Utenti ta’ Assistenza Personali (PA)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sapport.gov.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/PA-Reform-ESSA-November-2024-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ag\u0127fas fuq din il-\u0127olqa biex tni\u017c\u017cel kopja tal-pre\u017centazzjoni Excellence in Communities presentation \u2013 ESSA 2024 (bl-Ingli\u017c)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n                                            \n                <\/div>\n                                <div id=\"tab4\" class=\"tab-content\">\n                    <h2 class=\"h4\">Testimonjanzi<\/h2>\n                    <div class=\"post-content\"><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9762 size-full lazyload\" 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