Edf malta18.02.2017

1. CONFERENCE
INCLUSIVE WORKPLACES:
EMPLOYMENT OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN
LABOUR MARKET
S O C I A L F I R M S E U R O P E - C E F E C
M E M B E R S P R E S E N T A T I O N
M A L T A F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 7
A T H E N A F R A N G O U L I

2. Social Firms
Europe
Cefec
“A network for your social economy
vision”

3. Social Firms Europe
Cefec
“A network for your social economy vision”

4. Social Firms Europe
Cefec
“A network for your social economy vision”
CHECH
REPUBLI
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BELGIU
MAUSTRI
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SPAIN
SLOVENI
A
ROMANI
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ITALY
GREEC
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GERMA
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FINLAN
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PORTUG
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POLAN
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ENGLAND
SWITZERL
AND

7. Legal Situation
No Special
Legislation
No special
Funding
National Umbrella
Organisation
No special
But: Pro Mente Austria,
Pro Mente, Pro Mente
Upper Austria
The Number of Social
Firms and business
branches
21 Social Firms
Services: Restaurants,
garment, environmental
services
General situation
Psychiatric reforms are
advanced
A whole variety of work
integration models and
projects
Perspectives of
Social Firms
Cooperation with
stream business will
be promoted
Pro Mente
Website:
www.promenteaustria.at

9. Legal Situation
Wallon decree of
2008 related to
social economy
National Umbrella
Organizations of
socio-vocational
insertion and
companies of training
by work
The Numbers
2009: 95 organizations of
insertion with 12660 trainees
75 companies of training by
work with 4338 trainees
58 Companies of adapted work
with 6970 trainees
154 insertion companies
occupying 2472 workers
Perspectives
The insertion
companies are not
any more in a training
logic but in a
commercial business
one
General
Situation
Between
economic and
social
Insertion and
economy
AIGS
Website:
www.aigs.be

11. Legal Situation
Till 2004: Only the
Employment Law:
4% disabled staff in
every company with more
than 25 employees
(tax advantages, state
contributions, or
subsidies)
National Umbrella
Organization
TESSEA: Uniting individuals,
business, NGOs universities,
institutions
HUB Praha, Ashoka, VIA
foundation: focusing the
strategy for social inclusion
The Numbers
2014: 211 companies
Many sheltered workshops
Services: gardening,
restaurants,, sales, building,
packaging, technology
General situation
Growing interest from
politicians and officials.
Interest in social enterprises
or social firms strong with
NGOs and partly the
commercial sector
Perspectives
Networks of
supporters and
supporting
organizations are
becoming stronger
FOKUS PRAHA
Website: focus-praha.cz

12. FINLAND

13. Legal Situation
2004 & 2007:
Social firms with 30% disabled
staff
2010-11: National & EU
Funding for Social enterprises
2015: wage subsidy to social
firms
National Umbrella
Organization
VATES: provided business
advise, knowledge about a
Social Firms observation
and report about
implementation of the law
in co-operation with NGOs
The Numbers of Social
Firms and business
branches
2015: 150 Social Firms with
less than 1250 employees
and 750 disabled
Services: Social Sector
General situation
2 kinds of social
Firms:
For disabled (small)
For long -term
unemployed
(expanding)
Perspectives of Social
Firms
Funding for new projects
Increasing employment
possibilities for disabled
The trial with the “job
banks”
VATES
FOUNDATION
FINISH CENTRAL
ASSOSIATION FOR
MENTAL HEALTH
Website:
www.vates.fi
www.mtkl.fi
FINLAND

15. Legal Situation
Supportive legislation for Social
Firms since 2001
Funding for
New workplaces
Subsidy for wages and trainees
Subsidy for pchychosocial
support for employees
National Umbrella
Organization
BAG: representing,
advising organizing ,
lobbying Social Firms
since 1987
FAF: a special advise
and counselling
service
The Number of Social Firms
and business branches
800 Social Firms
23.000 employees
50% disabled
Services: Industrial production,
craft, , catering, hotels,
restaurants, facility
management, electronic data
General situation
The authorities realiize that
Social Firms are creating
new jobs for disabled
Perspectives of Social
Firms
Hope to create 20.000
jobs within the next 10
years in main stream
firms and in sheltered
workshop organizations
BAG
Website: www.bag-if.de

17. Legal Situation
1999: Social Cooperatives
of Limited Liability-
KOISPE- especially for
disabled with mental
health problems
No special Funding
National Umbrella
Organization
2010: PEPSAEE (NGO)
worked for establishment of a
Federation
2011: POKOISPE-The
Panhellenic Federation with
the support of the Ministry of
Health
The Number of Social Firms
and business branches
23 KOISPE with 2240
members , 1203 disabled with
psychosocial problems
Services: Cleaning services,
Restaurants, catering, trade
General situation
Koispe: a n effective tool for
work integration
Social economy is identified
as a priority for the Structural
Funds in the 2014-20 period
Perspectives
In times of a deep
economic-political-social
crisis Social cooperatives
are challenged in an
environment enhancing
social economy
Panhellenic Federation of
Social Cooperatives Ltd
(POKOISPE)
Website:
www.pokoispe.gr

19. Legal Situation
1991-2006: the legal framework
for Social Cooperatives in the
social, educational and health
sector (type A) and in work
sector 30% disabled (type B)
Great number of laws. The
system demands rationalization
National Umbrella
Organization
Third Sector Forum:
representing, lobbying,
dealing with authorities
The Social Cooperatives
Group: with 3 umbrella
organizations
The Number of Social
Firms and business
branches
2005:
8000 Social Cooperatives
with 30141 disadvantaged
employees and 15%
psychiatric patients
Great difficulty to gather
more recent facts
General situation
Social Cooperatives are
the best functioning part
of the Third Sector.
The Legal status and
salaries need to be
revised to prevent
discrimination
Perspectives of Social
Firms
Work sectors need to be
expanded into health
care and education
services.
Its crucial to ensure that
sectors for disabled are
reserved
Legacoopsociali
Website:
www.legacoopsociali.it

21. Legal Situation
2015: An intermediate and transiting to
the labour market legal framework,
existing since 1998 for people with
mental health problems, was suddenly
repealed.
Social Firms left looking for support at
the Institute of Employment and
Professional Training
National Umbrella
Organization
RESIT: Social Networking
for Integration at Work
ARIA
The Number of Social
Firms and business
branches
2001: 103 Social Firms with
1230 employees ending by
June 2016
Services: Laundry, Home
support, Catering, gardening,
patrimony and Cultural
Services
General situation
The government proposes
the creation of a legal
framework for social
enterprises
Perspectives of Social
Firms
Social enterprises: a way to
continue the support of
professional integration of
disadvantaged people,
especially with mental health
problems
ARIA
Website:
www.aria.com.pt

22. POLAND

23. Legal Situation
2006:Social Cooperatives
inspired by the Italian
model-Type B- for all
vulnerable social groups
2011: amendment permits to
organizations to join social
cooperatives
2015: Act on social
enterprises
National Umbrella
Organization
2012: Intersectoral and
interministerial team for
programming, regulating social
entrepreunership
4 working groups: legal
educational, financial, strategic
The Number of Social
Firms and business
branches
2014:
1200 Social Cooperatives
600 employees
20-30 Social Firms
60 Vocational training
centers
Services: production,
service sector
General situation
Proposal of an act
on social
entrepreneurship to
define the legal
status and activities
of social enterprises
Perspectives
Modernising social
cooperatives,
Economizing the NGO
sector, creating more
social enterprises
Social economy and local
development,
Using better the fundigs,
enrooting social economy
in society
KLOS
Website:
www.klos.org.pl

25. Legal Situation
2015: Law on Social
Economy (Credit Unions,
workers, NGO’s).
Social Enterprise of
Insertion: 30% employees
belonging to vulnerable
group
National Umbrella
Organization
No special
But: in regional level
AREAS with other
NGO’s working to set
up the first umbrella
organization for social
insertion
The Number of Social
Firms and business
branches
No statistics
Services: technical
equipment assembly,
orthopaedic repair,
printing, gardening,
greenhouses
General situation
Since 2004: social economy
promotion began through PHARE
financed programs
2008-10: Strategic projects
applied on ESF to support,
foundation, professional training,
etc
Many intiatives are still financed
through different European
programs
Perspectives of Social
Firms
To invest on wood
manufacturing, tourism,
organic food, gardening,
e-business,
manufacturing, medicinal
and aromatic plant
growing.
THE REGIONAL
ASSOCIATION OF
ADULT EDUCATION
(AREAS)
Website: www.areas.ro

26. SLOVENIA

27. Legal Situation
2004 Law : obligation of all companies
with more than 20 employees to employ
a percentage of 2-6% of disabled staff
For the “missing “ disabled:
compensation or making contracts with
social firms
National Umbrella
Organization
No special
But: SENT, founder of Social
Firms and of 4 employment
centersfor disabled
OZARA
ALTRA
The Number of Social Firms
and business branches
147 Social Firms
6500 disabled employees
Services: Farming, cleaning,
gardening, office and
administrative work
General situation
1976-1988: Conversion of
workshops into Social
Firms employing more
disabled with mental health
problems
28 employment centers in
Slovenia
Perspectives of Social
Firms
To employ more
disabled with mental
health problems in the
future
Slovenian
Association for
Mental Health
(SENT)
Website: www.sent-
si.org

29. Legal Situation
No Special
Social firms supported by
general legislation about social
inclusion and employment -
Special Employment Centers
(CEE)
The Andalousian Employment
Service (SAE) for disabled
National Umbrella
Organization
IDEMA, FAISEM,
ONCE
The Number of Social Firms
and business branches
ADECEM: 29 Social Firms with
500 disabled workers
IDEMA: 690 disabled workers,
368 with severe mental health
problems
Services: Carpentry, gardening,
printing, catering, domestic care,
cleaning, computers, etc
General situation
In Andalousia a successful
Psychiatric reform work
programs and Social
Firms over the last 20
years. Not the same in
whole Spain
Perspectives of Social
Firms
There is an increasing
interest on employment
programs for people with
mental health problems
despite the economical crisis
Fundacion Publica
Andalouza para la
integracion Social de
Personas con
Enfermedad Mental
(FAISEM)
Website: www.faisem.es

31. Legal Situation
No Special
There is a definitional
argument on Social
Firms
National Umbrella
Organization
ASSOF, FUGS:
work integration
organizations
The Number of
Social Firms and
business branches
600 work integration
organizationsGeneral situation
Existence of 2
organizations
demonstrates that a
hot debate on social
firms is going on
Perspectives of Social
Firms
Hope that there will be more
rehabilitation activities and
perhaps support for Social
Firms instead of granting
pension on a large scale
ASSOF
Website:
www.swisssocialfirms.c
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32. UNITED KINDOM

33. Legal Situation
No Special
Social Firms related to people
with severe disadvantages in the
labour market
2010: The Equality Act provides
some protection for disabled in
employment
National Umbrella Organization
Social Firms England: a social
enterprise/company to lead and
develop The Social Firms Sector,
lobbying and awareness-raising
activities to increase and ensure
the employability
The Number of Social Firms
and business branches
99 Social Firms + 82
emerging
1886 full time jobs, 58% for
disabled
26 Social Firms for people with
mental health problems
582 trainees per week
Services: maintenance,
catering, furniture, window
glazing
General situation
Social Firms are a
very small part of
62.000 existing social
enterprises across
UK.
A very low
understanding of the
Social Firm model
Perspectives of Social
Firms
The Social Value Bill
will make it easier for
social enterprises to win
and deliver public service
contracts
Opportunities created by
corporate social
responsibility
Social Firms
England
Website:
www.socialfirmsen
gland.co.uk