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The industry had in recent years a lot of criticism about the care of the 113,000 Dutch people with a mental or physical disability. There were complaints about health care providers who care little about the needs of their clients and drivers who are deaf to abuses. Experiencing caregivers often a heavy workload and they find that there is too little time and opportunity for improvement within their jobs.

Moreover, the cost of the disabled have risen sharply in recent years, from around six billion euros in 2005 to nearly ten billion euros in 2014. According to Van Rijn, this is partly because "our complex society running" for mentally disabled people no longer is to catch up. Remain disabled people live longer, giving them struggling with complicated old age problems.

With the plans outlined Van Rijn today, he hopes to take the first steps to "prepare for the future" for the disabled. For the next three years he draws a total of 13.2 million euros, primarily for the training of caregivers, the support of customers, the implementation of higher standards and further investigation.

The Secretary of State calls it crucial that caregivers listen better to their clients in order to gain more control over their own lives. "That means, for example also that they will be asking about sexuality on their plate. There they must therefore know more about it, "said Van Rijn.

Managers of healthcare facilities that make it inadequate work, then here should be settled harder. "If transparency is accountability and quality of life importantly, hear directors thereon to be addressed. And that sometimes means new directors. "

This also applies to the health care institutions that make soaring profits appear. The Secretary of State's municipalities, care agencies and insurance companies point out that they one should pay attention to the quality of those institutions on the price. Van Rijn: "For when you see that there are profiteering are possible, can you carry on a serious conversation."

The minister, however, leaves unanswered how the disabled with all these new plans also held still affordable in the future. "This will remain an issue of all time," he says. "What I particularly like is that people do not doubt that there is always good care will be for people with disabilities."

By Telegraph editorial / Photo: Dutch Height