266.For the purpose of making the public building and facilities more accessible to people with disabilities, technical accessibility standards have been set by regulatory means. In this context, a clause on the implementation and enforcement of these requirements is inserted into any specification books; equipment and facilities open to the public. 267.Information and public awareness: Regarding the information and public awareness component to the situation of children with disabilities, the Ministry of National Solidarity, Family and the Status of Women in charge of managing this domain, regularly organises in partnership with all audio-visual media and print media, information campaigns and debates around the rights of disabled children and the problems inherent in their implementation. As it does on the occasion of national days and international meetings and thematic seminars relating to the issue of disability in Algeria. 268.Similarly, awareness raising programmes on the risks of landmines have been developed in coordination with national institutions and civil society to reduce the number of victims, under the implementation of the Ottawa Convention on the Prohibition of landmines. 269.Furthermore, recreational days are organized by and for children with disabilities living in institutions. Pamphlets dealing with measures and mechanisms put in place for the protection and promotion of people with disabilities are developed and widely disseminated. 270.Therefore, it is necessary to emphasize the significant role played by 250 outreach solidarity cells established across the most remote and isolated areas of the country, in the areas of social support, community health, psychological and therapeutic care, mediation and social communication. 271.Information and communication shops within youth institutions make available items to children with disabilities in the same way as other children wherever they are and whatever their circumstances, a useful and practical information on all the opportunities that are available in all issues which concern them (sports, health, education, leisure, holidays...). 272.In terms of listening, there is also the intervention of listening cells at the ODEJ in 48 wilayas, which were reinforced by the creation of 535 listening centres in different youth institutions for the prevention and sensitisation through local actions especially towards children with moral difficulties, including children with disabilities. This scheme is governed by multidisciplinary teams (psychologists, sociologists, physicians, professionals of information and communication....). 273.Training of professionals: Training of social workers active in the field of support to children with disabilities is provided by three (03) national centres: 274.There were 293 people with 180 teachers and 53 special education teachers, specifically those invested with outreach missions and support to children with disabilities living in institutions. For 2008, the operating budget of the centres was estimated at 191 607 000, 00 AD. 275.Meanwhile, pending the implementation of the proposed creation of the Algerian school of sign language which will definitely be a contribution to the issue of care for people with hearing difficulties, the Ministry of National Solidarity family and Status of Women has worked to train social workers to sign language, as well as its and justice workers, in an agreed partnership with the Ministry of Justice. 46

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