장애인복지관의 법적 근거 강화 방안에 대한 탐색

Exploring the Revision of the Welfare Law for People with Disabilities in order to strengthen legal basis for social welfare center for disabled people

The purpose of this article explores the revision of the Welfare Law for people with disabilities in order to strengthen legal basis for the social welfare center for disabled people, which is running as a community based rehabilitation facility. Although the center has played an important role in offering welfare services in a given community, it is pointed out that the legal basis for it is too weak. In order to give an explicit legal basis to the center, this article suggests the necessities of the revision of Article 9 and 35, as well as of the creation of Article 17(2). Article 9 for responsibilities of governments needs to be revised to include the explicit term of the community based rehabilitation, and Article 17(2) is suggested to have more detailed regulations for the rehabilitation. This article also recommends that Article 35 regarding rehabilitation and independent living for people with disabilities should be revised to have the obvious regulations which address specific ways to offer welfare services through specialized institutions including the social welfare center for disabled people.