A/HRC/10/48 page 17 system of the country. Both direct and indirect legal barriers must be removed in the phase of admission as well as during education. The duty to provide reasonable accommodation of the individual’s requirements must be clearly established in national legislation. Such obligations shall be clearly established for all education providers, public or private. Overall institutional responsibility for the education of children with disabilities shall remain within the Ministry of Education and laws placing the education of persons with disabilities under the competence of the social welfare sector shall be repealed. Together with the obligations related to the right of children with disabilities to free and compulsory primary education, such duties are immediately applicable. 53. Secondly, States should formally identify standards of education to ensure that persons with disabilities can enjoy available, accessible, acceptable and adaptable education on an equal basis with others.45 While such standards are to be progressively realized, States are under the obligation to take immediate steps towards the realization of the right to education by persons with disabilities to the maximum of available resources. These standards shall cover at a minimum: availability of inclusive, quality and free primary education and secondary education on an equal basis with others in communities of residence; physical and communication access (Braille, alternative script, augmentative and alternative methods, sign language); means and format of communication and peer support; provision of individualized student support where necessary; provision of adaptable curricula that aim at the full development of human potential, the sense of dignity and self-worth of the human being and contribute to the development by persons with disabilities of their talents, personality and creativity, and enable participation.46 8. Right to work and employment 54. Article 27 of the Convention emphasizes the right of persons with disabilities to work on an equal basis with others, including their right to equal pay for equal work, as well as trade union rights. The Convention prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability and guarantees reasonable accommodation in all phases of work and employment, including recruitment, hiring and employment, advancement and conditions of work. It requires positive measures to ensure that the open labour market is inclusive to persons with disabilities and to promote opportunities for employment or self-employment. Article 27 restates the prohibition of slavery and servitude and the protection from forced or compulsory labour on an equal basis with others. 55. In the spirit of the Convention, any legislation on employment of persons with disabilities needs to protect against any form of discrimination, direct and indirect, in all sectors, forms and levels of employment. The prohibition of discrimination shall apply to all phases of employment, including conditions for access to employment, to self-employment or occupation, including selection criteria and recruitment conditions, vocational guidance, vocational training, practical work experience, employment and working conditions, including dismissal and pay, membership of, and involvement in, an organization of workers or employers, or any organization whose members carry on a particular profession, including the benefits provided for by such 45 See also A/HRC/4/29, para. 28. 46 CRPD, art. 24, para. 1 (a), (b) and (c).