During the yearly award ceremony of ‘Zero Project’, an initiative that strives for a world in which people with disabilities are fully included, the Flemish region in Belgium won the prize of ‘best policy’ for the creation of the Personal Assistance Budget.
Reform of legal capacity legislation to comply with the international human rights standards cannot be underpinned by the concept of ‘best interest’, concluded the participants of Inclusion Europe’s annual roundtable meeting on legal capacity and supporting decision-making entitled ‘Choice and control in my life’.