SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 11 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Deputy Minister of Social Welfare of the Government of the Canary Islands, Francisco Candil, announced this Monday in a working meeting of the plenary session of the Canarian Observatory of Social Services that the Executive is going to carry out a diagnosis that provides a “real x-ray” of the needs in this area. of social services on the islands and indicate which aspects, subjects or areas should be improved and which should be modified, both in relation to the instruments of third sector entities and the rest of public administrations, professional associations and business and union entities.
“This diagnosis will allow us to have a fundamental starting point to be able to evaluate what is being done in social policies in our community and what changes must be promoted in order to improve social care for Canarian citizens over the next few years. “said Candil, who announced that, for this purpose, a survey of habits and socioeconomic confidence was launched last October.
The objective, he said, is to obtain “as realistically as possible, the degree of knowledge and use of the different services of the Public Social Services System on our islands.”
This survey, whose design has been developed jointly between the Ministry of Social Welfare, ISTAC and the University of La Laguna, aims to gather opinions on the Canarian social services, for which an administrative agreement has been established for the development of the diagnosis and multisectoral analysis of the situation and state of social services in the Canary Islands.
“This is the first survey of its kind to be launched in the archipelago and, through it, we will have a real map and accurate knowledge about the public system in terms of social services in the Canary Islands,” said the deputy minister. of the area.
This was one of the issues addressed within the Plenary Session of the Canary Islands Observatory of Social Services, in which the proposal for the Observatory’s web portal design was also discussed, in the technical contracting phase, in addition to realizing the Action Plan corresponding to the year. 2023 and its extension to the 2024 annuity.
It must be remembered that the Canarian Observatory of Social Services is a collegiate body contemplated in the Canarian Law of Social Services that has a consultative, advisory, study and analysis nature of the public system of social services with the aim of promoting the necessary measures for the guarantee and improvement of the quality of Social Services, includes a note from the Executive.
This advisory body is made up of representatives of the regional, local and island administrations; professional associations of the Canary Islands of Social Work, Political Sciences and Sociology, Psychology and Social Education; business and union organizations; entities of the third sector of social action and public universities of the Canary Islands.
