SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, September 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Social Welfare, Equality, Youth, Children and Families of the Government of the Canary Islands, Candelaria Delgado, announced today Tuesday in Parliament that her department is finalizing the necessary procedures to renew the agreements with the Island Councils to address dependency and disability, so he hopes they can be signed in “a little more than a month.”
The representative of the regional Executive, in response to a question from the Canary Socialist Group, pointed out that the new document will contemplate increases in the amounts referred to transport and the price/place to adapt it as far as possible to the increase in prices that are being suffered. at the moment.
After explaining that these cooperation agreements were signed for the first time in 2018, the counselor recalled that this formula is intended for the provision of services to people in a situation of dependency and, in general, to people under six years of age, older people or people with disabilities. , and to carry out actions in relation to the procedure for recognition of the situation of dependency and the right to benefits.
Specifically, the purpose of these agreements is the provision by the Cabildos, with funds co-financed with the Government of the Canary Islands, of services for the prevention of dependency situations and those for the promotion of personal autonomy, telecare service, help service at home, day and night center service and residential care service.
“The intention is to now approve the fifth addendum which contemplates the price increase agreed in the last monitoring commissions, the modifications of places proposed by the Councils and the extension of the agreements until December 2024,” said the counselor, who recalled that the last meetings of the monitoring commissions with the Councils were in October of last year.
Finally, he pointed out that to assume the agreed increase plus the latest modifications proposed by the island corporations, which have already been quantified, a total increase of 8.5 million euros would be needed, so the contribution of the Government of the Canary Islands to these agreements with the Cabildos will exceed 194.9 million euros in total.
