In a few weeks, thousands of high school students with intellectual disabilities will graduate. The students have completed a four-year upper secondary education with a special focus, such as animal care or restaurant, which will be preparatory for a job in the municipality - daily activities.
Since the students are so dependent on their home municipality, the law states that daily activities must be adapted to the individual's needs and wishes. The students should be able to work with something they are interested in. But the reality is often completely different, according to Elisabeth Ingvarsson, legal counsel at Fub.
"The young people I meet are often sad that they are not allowed to work with what they have been trained in for four years. It is very often that this does not work within the municipalities.
In Norrköping, for example, a planning failure has meant that some young people have received an emergency job solution that is not individually adapted. Other young people in the municipality have not yet received any solution at all.
Hear more about the situation for the students in the clip above.