on guaranteeing the right to education for children
with illnesses or disabilities, as well as the current Committee
of Ministers
on the
education of people with disabilities as established by Recommendations
Rec(2006)5, CM/Rec(2009)8, CM/Rec(2009)9 and CM/Rec(2010)2, and
recommends that the Committee of Ministers:
1.1 forward this resolution to the governments of member states
and request that they take it into account when developing their
national education policies for children with disabilities with
a view to their full and active integration in society;
1.2 encourage member states to step up action and keep abreast
of recent techniques and interventions in the field of education
of children with disabilities;
1.3 create an intergovernmental committee of experts specialising
in the education of children with disabilities under the aegis of
the European Co-ordination Forum for the Council of Europe Disability Action
Plan 2006-2015 (CAHPAH) in order to ensure the follow-up of the
implementation at national level of the action plan’s Action Line
4 on education;
1.4 entrust the above committee with the identification of
good practice models of how the fundamental rights of people with
disabilities are specifically guaranteed and implemented nationally;
1.5 instruct the competent services of the Council of Europe
to produce a stocktaking report on the education of children with
disabilities within the next three years and, subsequently, to prepare
a set of recommendations to member states on the implementation
of educational strategies;
1.6 consider measures to make educational and informational
material produced by the Council of Europe accessible to children
and other people with disabilities, for instance by using new information technologies.
