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There is a 42% increase in the amount earmarked for children, 12% the measures directed at families or 17% the funds for the strategy for the homeless. The Municipal Equality Plan doubles the training courses in the Women's Centers, increases Helps victims of gender violence and broadens activities and actions to raise awareness against this social scourge
Councilor for Social Rights, Conchita Ruiz, presented this morning the budgets that will count on her department during 2017 and which grow 9.22% compared to 2016 reaching 27,493,489 €.
A clear example of the commitment of the City Council led by José Ballesta for improving the quality of life and social well-being of people, making Murcia a city of opportunities, enhancing networking to multiply resources, and providing a Effective, inclusive, relational and transversal administration.
This is a budget that seeks the implementation of new actions to deepen the improvement of the attention to the different sectors of population that make up the broad spectrum that makes up the population of our municipality.
The investment chapter allocates € 425,000 to the adequacy and renovation of buildings, mainly adaptations of older social centers and other social services facilities.
Another € 114,000 is also earmarked for the purchase and replacement of furniture and various machinery, especially for Centers the Social Centers of older.
Two-thirds of the budget goes to the direct provision of services and to the development of the different projects that are carried out for each of the population sectors, to which € 17,428,664 will be allocated, with growth over 2016 of one 9.50% (€ 1,511,932).
Attention to the family
In family matters, the budget is increased by 11.52%, reaching 3,214,307 €, with a significant increase for the provision of financial aid for the care of social emergencies, which already exceeds 2,900,000 €.
An amount that allows meeting, among other needs, those derived from the Plan against energy poverty, in addition to another € 250,000 planned for the social IBI and complementary activities of training courses and workshops on various topics of interest to families with which the Professionals of social services.
Another aspect to be highlighted is the elaboration of a Primary Care Improvement Plan, with which to facilitate access to our services and increase the number of points of care, currently 31, and reduce the ratio of inhabitants per social worker to Provide more personalized services, developing programs with a higher level of professional specialization.
Childhood and Adolescence
In order to boost the work that the Department has been developing with children and to improve the social opportunities of a significant number of young people and adolescents of the municipality, the budget has increased by 42.94%, reaching the amount of 1,653. € 200.
A remarkable increase that allows to expand leisure activities and leisure time, which go from 8 to 11 months a year and summer schools from 3 to 4 weeks, giving a greater number of them dining service.
All activities will also be fully accessible
This increase allows the implementation of a new work project with adolescents and young people from 13 to 17 years old who, in addition to working on problems of school absenteeism, will boost their return to studies among those who have left without a degree and promote their training and insertion Labor, and its development is planned in 22 neighborhoods and districts of the municipality.
A priority objective is the fight against child poverty, so that in addition to the increase in school dining places, will increase the number of support to support schooling during the school year and will expand the resources of socio-educational support.
All these actions will be incorporated into a Municipal Childhood Plan coordinated by the Municipal Social Services will integrate all the municipal actions directed to this sector of the population
Older and active aging
The budget for 2017 in the field of older people is € 686,500, which will allow a wide range of activities to be channeled through the network of elderly social centers in the municipality, with the main innovations being the increase in expenditure for gerontogimnasia and Of the training courses, to which must be added the acquisition of the regional press for the Centers.
Dependencies and disability
With an increase of 9.73%, the budget allocated to dependencies and disability reaches € 8,536,500 in this course, as a result of the growth of the new contract for home help which, as a novelty, will incorporate from September to people from the Dependency care system.
In this way, the number of beneficiaries is increasing and allows for the improvement of the services provided by the Day Care Centers, which have increased the coverage that has been provided.
There has also been an increase in the provision foreseen for the call for bonotaxi, which, as a novelty, may be requested at any time of the year.
People at risk of social exclusion and homeless
With the aim of making Murcia a reference as a preventive and coexisting city that faces vulnerability and social exclusion, as well as the elaboration of a municipal strategy for the homeless, by the network for inclusion in which the entities are integrated Of the third sector together with municipal technicians, the budget has increased by 17.30% compared to the previous year, allocating a total of 1,417,000 euros in 2017.
A game that will allow the improvement of the contract with the Jesus Abandoned Foundation to care for homeless people with socio-health problems, the implementation of a new training program for families in social difficulty and the beginning of a Housing First experience (First home), aimed at the social integration of homeless people through their incorporation into an independent household with a process of accompaniment by professionals specialized in the work of people with a high degree of social vulnerability.
Among the expected developments is the development of a public awareness campaign that will be carried out during the last quarter of the year in the framework of the intervention project with people begging and holding a national conference on emergency care Social, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the creation of SEMAS and which will be attended by representatives of the most important emergency services in the country.
Women and promotion of equality
In the area of ​​women, the Council intends to continue working towards the achievement of full equality and in the fight for non-discrimination on the basis of gender.
The result of this is the development of a new Equality Plan that includes a new group of actions promoted by the different municipal services to achieve this goal.
The budget of 482,700 €, is increased by 45.75% compared to 2016, which will allow to double the number of courses directed to the Women's Centers of the municipality, but mainly gives the possibility of increasing activities aimed at awareness And combating gender-based violence and increasing aid for victims of this social scourge.
Other sectors
In addition, it is planned to allocate € 153,000 for the promotion of the Roma people, another € 439,000 for the integration of the immigrant population and support for the refugees who are being welcomed in our municipality and the social organizations responsible for their care, another € 85,500 For the development of the Volunteer Social Volunteer Program and € 532,232 for the general expenses of the Council.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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