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Last year, more than 112,000 professional interventions were carried out by the municipal services, while 50,000 people were beneficiaries or direct beneficiaries of the programs, social benefits and resources managed by the City.
Primary care reached a coverage of 10% of the families in the municipality, providing social care to 15,367 families.
The Mayor, José Ballesta, presented this morning the memory of Social Rights last year to the Network for Social Inclusion of the City.
The Council of Social Rights last year had 21.8 million euros to guarantee social provision to those who need it, with the aim that no person who is in Murcia and suffering a vulnerable situation is no longer addressed in their needs Lack of municipal resources.
The aim is to facilitate the access of all citizens to the public resources available to support those who need it most, either through financial aid, prevention or training programs or by providing them with the socio-educational, psychological, social or legal advice they require.
For this, Murcia has a public network of social services fully consolidated and prepared to support the social welfare of all people residing in the municipality.
Last year, social services performed more than 112,000 professional interventions (since the same citizen may be subject to one or more interventions or participate in more than one program), while approximately 50,000 people were beneficiaries or direct beneficiaries of the programs, Social benefits and resources managed by the City Council through the Council of Social Rights.
These include economic aid for the care of social emergencies, services provided in centers for the elderly and women, not forgetting the programs that have children as an objective.
And, of course, attention to dependencies, the fight against social exclusion and against gender violence and the development of family-oriented services and the reconciliation of work and family life.
More cohesion, less social inequality
All this, with the aim of promoting social cohesion and achieving equality for all, reducing inequalities in the municipality and increasing levels of protection of citizens, in the area of ​​the fight against social exclusion.
In this sense, municipal primary health services occupy a privileged place to detect and address the problems of the people we serve, given the proximity and proximity.
Almost 22 million euros of budget and a staff of 210 professionals make it possible to develop a work oriented towards social cohesion and to meet the needs.
Presentation to the Network for Social Inclusion
The Mayor, José Ballesta, accompanied by the mayor of Social Rights, Conchita Ruiz, presented this morning the memory of 2015 regarding the social care provided by the City Council members of the Network for Social Inclusion of the City Council, integrated by the Network for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion (EAPN), Jesús Abandonado, Columbares, CEPAIM, Fundación Secretariado Gitano, Caritas, Red Cross and representatives of the regional administration.
The publication of this data, also accessible on the Internet, is a reflection of the good governance and transparency practices "with which the City Council is involved, also encouraged by the desire to be accountable for the work developed, in this case, by the Department Of Social Rights, "explains Ballesta.
The document, which will serve as analysis and study to improve and advance, includes the work of professionals from municipal social services but also from the entities that make up the third sector and from society work with the City Council for social inclusion.
The data contained in the 2015 report indicate that 31,048 people requested a previous appointment through the telephone 868 08 03 00.
Primary care reached a coverage of 10% of the families of the municipality, providing social care to 15,367 families, with 26,013 users and direct users, which represents 6% of the registry.
In addition, nearly 20,000 educational demands were attended, 1,153 psychological interventions and 5,134 legal care demands.
The 36,022 social benefits processed were distributed among the 3,914 economic aid granted (81% for food), 966 for the Emuasa social fund, more than 24,000 bonoplus trips, 3,354 reports to IMAS on dependency and 1,200 families applying for basic income Of insertion and 1,724 perceivers.
Attention services to people at risk or situation of residential exclusion or social vulnerability last year reached 1,200 homeless transients and immigrants, people in a situation of social difficulty and participants in employment programs.
These actions should be added to the reception services, accommodation and support contracted or subsidized by the City to 13 social entities, which allowed to attend in 2015 more than 3,000 people, in addition to the agreement with Jesus Abandoned, which includes almost 16,500 overnight stays and 33,000 Meals and annual dinners.
Likewise, 610 families with 847 people - more than half of them registered in the municipality - required the intervention of the emergency services for social services (SEMAS).
As for the specific services of care for the family, in 2015, social services acted with 383 families and almost 1,400 children with a preventive nature, while 70 cases of child neglect -172 minors- were registered with moderate-severe risk.
11,270 children were cared for last year for both school absenteeism, school attendance, school reinforcement, project activities with children and adolescents (PAIs), Ciberaulas, summer schools or conciliation centers.
Older people are twice the target of municipal social services.
On the one hand, through the programs for the permanence in their environment that counted on more than 5,000 users through home help, food at home, family respite, teleassistance and day care centers, and, on the other hand, The projects of active aging, that add up about 38,500 users in the different activities around the social centers of majors.
Likewise, more than 16,500 women were users of equality promotion services (municipal centers, training activities, reading activities, etc.) and care for victims of gender violence, which last year intervened with 295 women.
The development of municipal social policies also takes into account the services for the care of people with disabilities - both with the aid to the transport as the work done with 54 entities in the work table - and the programs of promotion of the voluntary service.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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