Intersindical Canarias are against what has been stated by several Island Councils, by the associations of Social Workers and opposing common sense itself, the current government pact of the Canary Islands, made up of Coalición Canaria and the PP, who insist on modifying the Catalog of Social Services to, firstly, "privatize and then distort the important Home Help Service on which nearly 20,500 people on the islands depend," they say.
"Thus, through an amendment to the budgets, it is intended to allow municipalities to replace the provision of the service to dependent people with financial aid, a situation that eliminates a resource that enables the dignity and quality of life of dependent and elderly people. Furthermore, it greatly complicates the organization and activity of their relatives, most of whom are workers with scarce means and resources," they state.
In this way, "the service is deprofessionalized and detached from public administrations, which is an attack on a basic social right that, in the case of people alone and without family, the intended modification amounts to serious institutional negligence," the union states.
"We cannot forget that this new government measure is aimed directly against the same sector of the population with high vulnerability that today suffers from the lack of socio-health beds, a fact that, in addition, has been complicating the saturation of public hospitals by being forced to give them shelter," they indicate.
Intersindical Canaria reiterates "its commitment to the defense and improvement of public services, and especially as is the case at hand, for the defense of the most vulnerable, demanding that the authorities and institutions suspend the intention to break the current system of the Home Help System and, on the contrary, demands its improvement, rescuing it entirely as a public service managed and carried out directly by the city councils and island councils".
