With end of year horizonCastilla y León is preparing a “pact for families” to be able to design “more measures and aid” that will allow regional support to reach more family units and which will place particular emphasis on rural areas. Among the strategies proposed are that aid linked to “reducing school absenteeism” in the Community.
This was declared on Tuesday by the Vice-President of the Council and Advisor for Family and Equal Opportunities, Isabelle Blancoafter the meeting held between the President of the Autonomous Government, Alfonso Fernández Mañuecoand representatives from the third sector who work in the field of social inclusion.
The “hand in hand” work with these organizations will begin next week with the meeting of working groups from which a common proposal will emerge with five axes which includes employment, housing, rural areas, education and social services, among others.
They will have a special role in this plan the elderly and children, hBlanco assured the media, and gave as an example the sequence of different aids “to reduce school absenteeism which still exists”.
The support which will be linked to course attendance must be agreed with the social entities, he indicated, before recalling that in the Community the Guaranteed citizenship income It is already linked to this factor and “has had results”. Therefore, this This will be the “line to follow”.
It is, he said, about making the lives of vulnerable families easier. the “normalization of their lives”. “Social services are the entry point in these cases, but they must also provide tools to get out of these situations,” he said. The intention is therefore to be able to respond “one-off situations, but also lasting ones.”
A “success”
In this sense, he recalled some of the support recently approved in the Community, such as aid to repay mortgages or so-called emergency aid. This will be the way forward, he said, with the needs that the third sector “puts on the table”.
For his part, the president of EAPN in Castile and LeónÓscar Castro, as representative of the entities present at the meeting, considered a “success” the meeting with the head of the Regional Executive, who, in recent weeks, has opened a cycle of dialogue with different sectors.
“The commitment is that there is a big pact so that families in vulnerable situations advance social inclusion on issues such as housing, employment or education and that together we ensure that they move forward”, he stressed about an agreement which ““There will be deadlines and an associated budget.”concluded the advisor.
