From November 2011 to September 2012, ESN ran a training programme entitled ‘Managing Change: The role of public authorities in deinstitutionalisation’ for sixteen policy-makers and social managers from the Visegrád countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia).
This course was run by ESN in cooperation with the Tizard Centre at the University of Kent. Learning methods included a small number of presentations complemented by visits to services, group work and discussions with the aim of supporting the participating national teams to both take effective action and inform wider action plans in their own country.
The training programme included three meetings:
In the second half of 2012, members of the Secretariat and ESN representatives visited participants of the training programme in Mazovia (Poland) and Bratislava (Slovakia) for an update on developments in deinstitutionalisation within those countries.