SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 21 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
Patricia Hernández, candidate for mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife for the PSOE, has promised this Friday to triple the number of public centers in the municipality with the creation of four new municipal centers.
Currently, there are only two municipally owned centers, one in Añaza (Tara) and another in the Ofra district (Faina), bringing the total supply to 140 places for a municipality whose population exceeds 200,000 inhabitants.
“It is not understood that Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has 1,200, La Laguna with 155,000 inhabitants has 244 beds, La Orotava with 42,000 has 205, Guía de Isora with 21,000 citizens and 192 beds, El Rosario with 17,000 and 163 or La Matanza that does not reach 10,000 and offers almost the same places as our municipality,” Hernández said, adding that “in the last 12 years of Bermúdez’s tenure, no kindergarten has opened.”
According to the latest data published by the INE, the child population in the municipality is 7,000 boys and girls, which means that the ratio is 2 places for every 100 children in Santa Cruz, compared to Guía de Isora with a ratio of 21 for every 100 or La Matanza with 33 per 100.
“We are at the tail, the families have been forgotten by the Bermúdez team, which has not taken this demand into account,” he added in a note sent by the Socialists.
Hernández stressed the importance of early childhood education as a tool that contributes with families to the comprehensive development of the little ones and that goes beyond the assistance nature that nursery schools had been having.
The candidate also announced that she already has municipal spaces located in areas such as Los Verodes–Los Gladiolos, Miramar, currently closed, the upper part of the southwestern district and La Salud, in addition to working to locate a space in Anaga.
“But that is only the first step because our idea is not to stay here, we will go longer term because we are aware that not everyone can access a private space and also that prices are rising due to the current shortage “, he pointed.
