Indicator history

The issues of social integration are covered in the govermental strategical document – the National Development Plan 2007-2013. Another document, containing more detailed regulations in terms of social integration, is the Human Capital Operational Programme. Its aim is to fulfill the National Development Plan in the area of Human Capital which also contains integration policy. The Human Capital Operational Programme defines six groups at risk of social exclusion: long-term unemployed persons, people with disabilities, children and adolescents, prisoners and persons leaving penal institutions, refugees and migrants, and, finally, Roma people.
Another document accompanying the National Development Plan is the Social Policy Strategy 2007-2013. It defines seven priorities for Polish social policy. The seventh priority is “Social and labour market migrant integration”. It applies to groups of migrants understood as: persons in asylum procedure for more than 3 months, persons with tolerated stay and refugees. The document also contains the list of groups experiencing exclusion or strongly exposed to the risk of poverty and social exclusion. Those groups are: homeless, people staying at and leaving educational or post-penitentiary institutions, people addicted to psychoactive substances, victims of violence, the Roma, immigrants and refugees, the working poor and children from families with educational deficits.