Santa Cruz de Tenerife (EFE) of access and the procedure for updating and reviewing it.
The Minister of Social Rights, Noemí Santana, has reported on this agreement after the meeting of the Governing Council and has announced that the provision of the services provided in the catalog will mean a minimum direct investment by the Autonomous Community of 1,800 million euros in twelve years.
To this end, the annual budget of the Ministry of Social Rights, which currently amounts to 700 million euros, will increase a minimum of 55 million per year to cover these benefits, specified Noemí Santana, to which must be added the contributions of the councils
“With this catalog we give security and certainty to citizens about their rights in the social sphere”, explained the counselor, who referred to the process involved in drafting the catalogue, which has allowed this list of benefits to be closed by consensus with other administrations and with the third sector.
It has been three years of “huge work” so that, for the first time, the citizens of the Canary Islands have a catalog of benefits and social services, “an enormously useful document” for administrations, for the third sector and for users, he explained. Santana.
The counselor added that the councils and town halls have participated in this catalog, through the Fecai and the Fecam, and two hundred social work professionals.
This allowed the broad consensus reached, which led the General Council for Social Policies to approve the catalog without any vote against, he added.
More than 600 claims were submitted to the catalog proposed at the beginning, of which 40 percent were incorporated, and later the claim period was extended to achieve an even greater consensus, he stressed.
Noemí Santana outlined the content of the catalogue, which includes rights and services such as care for the most vulnerable population with economic benefits for basic needs, services for the homeless, sheltered housing and municipal services for emergency care and social emergencies.
The catalog also includes the care and accommodation of ex-guardian youth, economic benefits for foster families, specialized support services for families of people with disabilities, specialized residential mental health service, specialized behavior service or shelter homes for female victims. of gender violence.
In general, the catalog orders and clarifies the benefits and services of the public social services system of the Canary Islands, the provision of which must be guaranteed by public administrations.
All services and benefits, which pursue full social inclusion and prevent social exclusion, are integrated into the publicly responsible social services system of the Canary Islands, regardless of whether the ownership of the services or equipment is public or private.
“The benefits can be of service, economic or technological and will aim at the autonomy and well-being of people and their families, ensuring their right to live with dignity during all stages of their lives, and addressing situations of risk or exclusion social”, explained the Ministry.
The catalog will be updated regularly and periodically based on the analysis of the information available on the resources and the social needs that are demanded.
This will allow adequate and realistic attention to social needs and demands or adapt the catalog to new services or obligations.
The forecast is that every two years the Government updates the catalog in coordination with the other public administrations through the Social Services Sectoral Conference and with the participation of the General Council of Social Services. EFE