He said he would and took action. The Andalusian Employers’ Association for Early Childhood Care has appealed to the recruitment tribunal of the Junta de Andalucía for the eight specifications that will govern the next two years. the provision of services for children under six years of age with special needs due to developmental disabilities or who are at risk of suffering from them. From this group they understand that it will be “unsustainable” if it is put into practice as proposed by the autonomous administration and demands an increase in costs.
The obstacle, which the employers’ union has been denouncing since last July, is that the Andalusian government maintains the price set as aid per session at 28 euros, the same as in 2020.
But during these four years, employers say, Costs have increased significantly and service is ‘poor’. If the Council’s contribution is not increased, they warned that many centers “are doomed to disappear”, which would result in an “obvious decline” in a “basic and essential” service, not only for children but also for their recalled families. the president of the association, Gonzalo Caba.
The increase in inflation since 2020 is 15% and that of staff salaries will be twelve percent throughout 2025. “In this group we are losing money“, says Caba, who recalls that in other regions of Spain the administrative contribution is much greater.
Thus, in the Basque Country, 48.51 euros; in the Balearic Islands, 42.37; and in La Rioja, 48.28, to name only the three clearest examples, although Murcia, Navarre and Galicia are also higher in this sense.
In Andalusia There are 211 early care centers which welcome children aged 0 to 6 years.. Around a thousand professionals work there. Furthermore, in the appeal presented today, “the award criteria which affect the quality of the service” are contested, such as “the obligation to provide free hours” or the “discrimination” exercised against companies who do it. They promote the reconciliation of family life. Employers have called for precautionary measures to paralyze the tender process until the appeal is resolved.
