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32. Special facilities should be set up or developed for training disabled persons who by reason of the nature of their disability cannot be trained in company with able-bodied persons. 33. Measures should be taken to encourage employers to provide training for disabled persons ; such measures should include, as appropriate, financial, technical, medical or vocational assistance. 34. Policy relating to the training of disabled persons should be formulated and applied on the basis of close co-operation among the bodies concerned with medical rehabilitation, social security, vocational guidance, training and employment of disabled persons, and in co-operation with employers' and workers' organizations. VI. Organization and Administration 35. (1) Appropriate co-ordinated programmes for the training of adults should be drawn up, developed and revised periodically by or on the initiative of the competent authority in co-operation with the employers' and workers' organizations representing the branches of economic activity concerned, and taking into account national, regional and local conditions. (2) Such programmes should be co-ordinated with other aspects of the general programme for vocational training. 36. (1) The competent authority should, in co-operation and by agreement with the employers' and workers' organizations concerned, take all necessary and desirable measures to facilitate and co-ordinate the development of public and private activities relating to the training of adults. (2) Such measures should include, as appropriate — (a) Determination of the scope and character of training requirements and of the facilities available ; (b) Setting of standards relating to the conditions and methods of training ; (c) Establishment of curricula for training in the different industries and occupations ; (d) Technical assistance to the organizations and undertakings providing training; (e) Financial assistance to such organizations and undertakings. 37. (1) The responsibility of public authorities for the training of adults should be clearly defined. (2) Such responsibility should be entrusted — (a) To one authority, or (b) To several authorities the activities of which should be closely co-ordinated. 38. Close and continuous co-operation should be maintained between the public employment service, the training services and the employers' and workers' organizations concerned, in particular to recruit adults for training and to place them at the end of training. 39. (1) Training should be developed with the assistance of advisory committees ;set up at the national, regional and local levels as necessary, and composed of representatives of the authorities and bodies concerned, including employers' and workers' ■organizations. (2) Such committees should be responsible for advising, in particular—(a) At the national level, on the development of policy and programmes for training of adults ; (b) At the regional and local levels, on the application of measures taken nationally, their adaptation to regional and local conditions and the co-ordination of regional and local activities. 40. (1) Tite competent authority should encourage the development of industry advisory committees to assist in applying training programmes for adults in the industry which they represent.

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