The law n. 112 of 22 June 2016, implementing the Constitutional principles and UN Convention on Right of Persons with Disabilities, provided measures aimed to promote the welfare, full social inclusion and autonomy of people with disabilities. Specifically it is referred to people with serious disabilities with lack of family support for the absence of parents or because they are not able to support them.

On 23 February the decree n. 45 introduced Law on “dopo di noi” was published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale. This decree establishes the requirements to access to the measures provided by the assistance’s fund set up last June in order to the care and protection of persons with serious disabilities without family support. In addition, the decree was involved in the allocation of resources to the regions, which on 28 February sent to the government general guidelines for an evaluation that has to be done by the end of March.

If the government will respect the deadline for the evaluation of the regional general guidelines, since next April regions may enact specific regional acts to give practical effect to the provision of the Law on “dopo di noi”.