The Listen, Analyse, Act project improved the skills and competences of social workers and all those who have responsibility for the upbringing and education of children/young people with disabilities or special educational needs through the exchange of new methodologies and good practices implemented by the partner organisations.
According to the latest data provided by the European Agency for Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Education for 2016/2017, there is an increasing number of children and young people in Europe who are certified as having special educational needs or who have disabilities. In Italy, the statistics are very high, with approximately 90,845 children with BES, 69,470 adolescents and 65,913 young people with BES; in Bulgaria there are approximately 7,126 children, 6,284 adolescents and 4,605 boys, whereas in Greece, there are 30,112 children with a BES certification, 29,749 adolescents and 22,710 boys. According to the data, it is clear that an increasing number of educators and social workers, youth workers and pedagogical professionals need to intervene in order to provide more and more quality education that responds to the real needs of children. quality education that meets the real needs of children/young people also outside the school context through initiatives that focus on the personal and social development of young people, taking into account their respective realities and promoting inclusion. It is therefore necessary to increase professionalisation through the use of quality criteria for the recognition of knowledge,