According to this report, many persons with disabilities feel badly treated, checked on, questioned, and sometimes discriminated by various authorities with which they are in contact. The Social Insurances Office is one of the authorities criticised in the report. Important steps have been taken towards a development of the area concerning working life for persons with disabilities. In the last few years, several initiatives have been taken, which have attracted various kinds of researchers and made them interested in the research field of working life and disabilities. Demands have been made for a national network for active researchers within this field.
Practitioners point out the importance of easy access to interested researchers.
Researchers emphasise the necessity of access to a forum for cross-border communication and cooperation regardless of subject, faculty and university. The purpose is the creation of a website making researchers more visible to existing and potential research users. It is the duty of the Local Democracy Committee to propose actions improving citizens' possibilities of insight into and participation in the local democracy, as well as strengthening the function and forms of the local representative democracy. Citizens with disabilities are one of the groups the committee will pay particular attention to. The study was initiated because the working forms and conditions of the local democracy are not always adjusted to the demands and needs of citizens with disabilities.