Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare takes measures to improve quality of group homes for people with disabilities and increase transparency. It has been decided that efforts will be made to establish a meeting to allow outside observers to take part.
Group homes are being developed to allow people with disabled to live in a home-like environment in the local community. The number of group. homes has increased to 12,600 nationwide as of the end of March last year, an. increase of 1.6 times from five years ago.