70% of Dependency staff end their contract in December and there is no renewal

70% of the staff of the Dependency end their contract in December and the Canary Islands government does not foresee their renewal. The Canary Islands Dependency Observatory warns that this would make the situation even worse. delay in the assessment of the dependence of the Canary Islands.

The Canary Islands Social Rights Observatory (Odesocan), as pointed out by the director Emma Colao, warned against this situation as soon as it became aware of it, because the staff hired by the Social Protection Department of the Government of the Canary Islands to carry out the functions of assessing the degree of Dependency and issuing the PIA report, your employment contract will end on December 31.

As he noted, “if the problem is not resolved immediately, would further aggravate the chaos that the archipelago is currently suffering in this matter.”

The director of Odesocan, Emma Colao, warned that there was still Program renewal has not been effective by which up to 70% of the staff of the General Directorate of Dependencies is financed despite the knowledge of the bureaucratic procedures and the delays that this implies. “For the extension to be effective, it must have the approval of the advisor, the completion of the obligatory report from the General Directorate of Planning and Budgets, the completion of the obligatory report by the Civil Service area, as well as the corresponding calls . this will be done in order of programming by professional groups” and this “will lead to a approximately 5 months for the provision of the necessary personnel.

If said contract is not renewed before December 31, “not only will the current waiting period increase to between 5 and 7 months, but also, during this period, the General Management will not be able to issue a single resolution to any candidate” .

He also warns that the budget is “totally insufficient“and the need to “urgently” extend the corresponding program contract in order to avoid the collapse of the system for recognizing the right to benefits and services for people in a situation of dependency.