Disability policy summary - Gauteng Online

Training and skills developmentThe Gauteng government shall prioritise people with disabilities in skills development initiatives byundertaking the following steps:• Providing life-long learning opportunities for people with disabilities beyond formal schoolingaccording to their talents and different abilities.• Giving people with disabilities preferential treatment in skills development plans for the province.• Setting and achieving targets designed to expand the participation of people with disabilities inlearnerships, business mentorships and apprenticeships.• Balancing focus on wealth-creating skills (economic) and social life skills that enhance socialinclusion and self-realisation.HealthThe provincial government shall provide people with disabilities with the same range, quality andstandard of free or affordable health care and programmes as is provided to other people. This shallinclude sexual and reproductive health as well as special health services needed by people withdisabilities. The government shall take the following measures:• Ensure that no form of discrimination against people with disabilities takes place in the healthsystem including stigmatisation of mental health by the public.• Ensure that the revitalisation of hospitals and other health institutions take into consideration thespecial needs and circumstances of people with disabilities, including physical access.• This needs definition, explanation, and cost-effective motivation.• Enable the consolidated primary health care services to address ill-health that causes disability andto address infectious diseases that afflict people with disabilities.• Facilitate prevention and promotion programmes to prevent primary and secondary disability.• Provide general and specialised therapeutic and rehabilitation services at primary, secondary andtertiary level.• Design and provide special interventions to mitigate the impact of HIV and AIDS on people with14 | Disability Rights Policy