He Tenerife Council will entrust non-profit social initiative entities, through social concert, with the provision of management services for 180 places in residential care for boys, girls and adolescents, with custody or guardianship measures. The Official Gazette of the Province published this Monday the announcement regarding the bases of the call and the list of technical requirements for the selection of entities for the provision of this service. The Minister of Social Action, Águeda Fumero, assures that “the modality of the social agreement, contemplated in the Social Services Law of the Government of the Canary Islandsallows us to guarantee a stable investment for the coming years.
The duration of the concert is five years, extendable to seven, and will mean a total investment of 49.4 million euros. The agreement may be modified during its validity to address possible modifications to sector agreements.
For Águeda Fumero, this will mean “one more step towards the revolution in social management, since it offers us a stable framework of collaboration, which allows us to provide a comprehensive care service, ensuring compliance with the rights of minors who “They enter the child protection system in the form of residential care.” The counselor highlights that this social concert “lays the foundations for a change of model in the management of social serviceswhich will make it possible for the administration to provide more effective and more specialized services, with the aim of responding efficiently to the personal needs of each of the users.
In short, states the Minister of Social Action, “thanks to this instrument, we will be able to create, jointly with third sector entities, a system that responds to social needs in an agile and effective way.”
