Aġenzija Sapport is the National agency for persons with disabilities and their families
MISSION STATEMENT
Aġenzija Sapport is Malta’s National Agency that offers and provides services, support and guidance to persons with disabilities, their support networks, and their communities. Cause
To assist persons with disabilities to achieve social equitability. Aġenzija Sapport offers a wide range of services from social work assessments and interventions – including children’s services, community services, supported independent living services, day services, sign language interpretation, assessments and recommendations in assistive technology, driving assessments, workshops, blue badge service, EU disability card as well as a number of schemes. HISTORY
In August 2001, the Supported Living Division was set up within the Foundation for Social Welfare Services of the then Ministry for Social Policy. The aim was to establish principles, values and strategies to provide services to persons with disability and their families. The Division became an Agency in February 2003, under the name of Aġenzija Sapport as it is still known today and on to become an autonomous Agency through Legal Notice 104 in April 2016.
