SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 21 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Council of Ministers has approved today Tuesday, at the proposal of the Ministry of Equality, the distribution of 9,508,738.51 euros to the Canary Islands for the promotion of family reconciliation through the Corresponsibles Plan, which has a total allocation for all of Spain of 190 million euros in the General State Budget for 2023. This territorial distribution will be submitted to the Sectoral Equality Conference for final approval.
The Co-responsible Plan was launched in 2021 with the autonomous communities and Ceuta and Melilla to create a public care network and develop actions and benefits aimed at facilitating the reconciliation of families with daughters and sons up to 16 years of age. This plan facilitates the creation of quality employment in the care sector, as well as dignifying and certifying the professional experience of non-formal care.
The Corresponsables Plan aims to guarantee care as a right in Spain from the perspective of equality between women and men, under the protection of article 44 of Organic Law 3/2007, of March 22, for the effective equality of women and men and from a guarantee of universal rights approach, regardless of the employment status of the beneficiaries.
The objective of this plan is the development, through the competent regional bodies in matters of equality, of actions and benefits aimed at facilitating the reconciliation of families with daughters and sons up to 16 years of age, through the creation of professional care bags , the creation of quality employment in the care sector, the preparation of training plans in co-responsibility and care for men and, when the state regulatory development allows it, the implementation of a system of accreditation of professional skills acquired through professional experience or informal ways.
To this end, the autonomous communities and cities develop the Co-responsible Plan through five lines of action: 1) Facilitate the reconciliation of families with minor daughters and sons up to 16 years of age through the creation of professional care bags; 2) Create quality employment in the child care sector; 3) Dignify care work by certifying the informal experience, as well as by establishing psychosocial care and support for caregivers; 4) Raise awareness on the co-responsibility of women and men; and 5) Prepare a State Map of Care that facilitates access to information on care available in the General State Administration and in the different Autonomous Communities, as well as the configuration of a bank of good practices that facilitates the orientation of the public policy and exchange of experiences.
