The short-term impact of COVID-19 on the Social Support Services Sector
This report analyses the availability of social support services during the first period of the COVID-19 pandemic and explores in how far the nature or quality of these services changed. Furthermore…
Assessment of funding models for a successful implementation of the Child Guarantee – lessons learnt from the Youth Guarantee
The aim of this report is to contribute to the shaping of the Child Guarantee to make it impactful so that it can reach its objectives. It will do so by reviewing the experience of a similar instrument…
Technology for Employment in Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs)
Digitalisation is changing the labour market, including the way people work and are being trained. In this light, this research is investigating the penetration of digital technologies into the sector…
Third-country Social and Care Service Professionals: Unlocking the job creation potential of Social Services - a study realised for Social Services Europe
Social Services Europe (SSE) commissioned Istituto per la Ricerca Sociale (IRS) to produce a European study on national and/or local level interventions on ways to unlock the potential of third-country…
Alternatives to Public Procurement in Social Care
Since its adoption in 2006, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities together with the recent European Pillar of Social Rights, call for a paradigm shift in the way in which care and…
Study on the implementation of the European Accessibility Act and Web Accessibility Directive
The EU has taken an important first step in ensuring disability rights by adopting the Web Accessibility Directive & the Accessibility Act, harmonising the rules on accessibility of public websites…
The Opportunities  and  Barriers  of  different  Employment Models  for  Persons with Disabilities
This study was commissioned by the European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities (EASPD) as part of its Annual Work Programme in 2019. EASPD wanted to examine the opportunities…
Country Factsheets on Social Care & Support Services (SCSS) Sector
The factsheets are meant to provide useful evidence for persons with disabilities and their carers, service providers, policymakers and researchers on the situation of persons with disabilities throughout…