The employment of people with disabilities – the reform and the (moderate) results.

We thought 2012 was a turning point in the Hungarian history of rehabilitation. A “rehabilitation” of rehabilitation approach and practice was needed. Hungarian rehabilitation has come a long way since 2008, with the legislation of 2007 and then of 2011 putting the complex rehabilitation of people with disabilities on a new footing. This has enabled rehabilitation to be truly a complex process. We believe that the aspects of psychological and training rehabilitation are not sufficiently reflected in the criteria for complex assessment. Furthermore, the criteria for complex assessment do not reflect the two-way nature of rehabilitation, which aims to improve the client’s condition and to shape society. We see rehabilitation employment as a means to achieve supported employment for people with disabilities that integrates them into the labour market, but employment indicators have not improved significantly.