SentirTEA, an association of families with autism, has joined the demonstration to "demand the implementation of the early care unit" for Lanzarote, organized by the Platform for Early Care and Children's Rights, which gathered this Tuesday morning, June 27, in front of the Government Delegation in Arrecife at 10:00 AM.
The association recalls "the mistreatment that Lanzarote suffers in terms of early care", an essential service for early detection and therapy, as well as for ensuring adequate levels of skill acquisition and autonomy. "While Lanzarote is experiencing a third-world situation as the only island without this public service, Gran Canaria and Tenerife are already awaiting the third unit," SentirTEA points out.
"Families cannot continue to bear the economic burden of hiring a private service," it clarifies. "We demand that the commitment to have a public, free, and quality service for the island's population before the end of 2023 be fulfilled, with the hiring of public personnel as established in Article 12 of the Law regulating Early Care in the Canary Islands, with the requirements reflected in said article," they demand. "Therefore, we join the PATDI's proposal for a public, open, and specific call to fill the vacant positions and create a substitution list," they add.
With this "gesture of demand," the PATDI seeks the "political commitment" of all the groups that will form the new parliament of the Canary Islands and a commitment from the new government to "promote the development of the Public Early Care Network that the Canary Islands needs," the association informs.
"Our sons and daughters deserve the same treatment as those in the rest of the Canary Islands," SentirTEA concludes.