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Article 15 – Social Care and Services

1. The Signatory recognises that everyone has the right to necessary social services and to benefit from social assistance in the event of need.

2. The Signatory recognises that women and men have different needs which may arise from differences in their social and economic conditions and other factors. Therefore in order to ensure that women and men have equal access to social care and social services the Signatory will take all reasonable measures to:

• Incorporate a gender based approach to the planning, resourcing and delivery of social care and social services

• Ensure that those involved in the delivery of social care and social services recognise the ways in which gender affects those services, and take into account women’s and men’s different experience of that care.