SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Aug. 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Social Welfare, Equality, Youth, Childhood and Families of the Government of the Canary Islands, Candelaria Delgado, announced this Monday that her department is working on a new decree to reduce the terms in which the degree of dependency is assessed.
Delgado said so after holding a meeting with the Deputy of the Common, Rafael Yanes, adding that this “will mean administrative simplification in terms of dependency”, as reported by the regional Ministry of Social Welfare in a press release.
Delgado admitted that it is “urgent” to address the approval of a new decree on the procedure for recognition of dependency status “more in line with current times” so that the deadlines established by the dependency law can be met.
He also explained that he will reinforce the staff of the Ministry of Social Welfare, “especially in the areas of disability, dependency and disability, to solve the structural problems of the workforce.”
The counselor pointed out that the meeting with the Deputy of the Common is “the first of many” because communication will be “fluid and constant” so that “from now on all these situations are resolved more adequately for two reasons” .
Specifically, because he said work is being done so that bureaucracy “is not an obstacle that citizens face when they go to the public administrations of the Canary Islands”, as well as because his team “will always be available to listen and resolve any complaint that may be present”.
For his part, the Deputy of the Común, Rafael Yanes, affirmed that the meeting with Delgado has been “intense and very productive”, qualifying that “almost 40 percent of the complaints presented by citizens in the institution correspond to the Welfare area Social”.
Yanes explained that the matters of the Ministry led by Delgado “concentrate the hard core” of the concern of the Diputación del Común, “without forgetting the other two pillars of the Social Welfare, Education and Health system”, to point out that they are about “matters that directly affect the quality of life of the most vulnerable people in the population”.
He added that it is the areas of dependency, disability and the elderly, where “the biggest problems that have to be faced urgently are detected, while in the areas of equality, social services and minors there is more direct collaboration” with the counseling.
