Providers of special care services brought 300 empty chairs outside Estonia’s parliament on Friday to highlight the sector’s deepening funding crisis and shortage of activity supervisors, ERR reported. The chairs symbolised people already receiving special care services, clients waiting for acces…

Several special care homes in Estonia are planning to close because state funding does not cover their actual costs, ERR reported. Nearly 2,000 people are waiting for places, while demonstrators gathered in Toompea to demand money from the state budget for services needed by people with severe ps…

Estonia’s government must decide whether to fund more special care places or provide money for legal disputes and compensation involving people with mental health conditions and intellectual disabilities, ERR reported. The Supreme Court ruled in the spring that anyone who needs a place in a speci…