The Association of People with Disabilities of Lanzarote, Adislan, has demonstrated this Wednesday afternoon in protest against the tender of the Cabildo for the Residence, Day Center, Occupational Center and Functional Homes services, since they assure that the families "do not agree". The march, attended by more than a hundred people, began at the Puente de Las Bolas, on a route that ended in front of the doors of the Island Council of Lanzarote where a manifesto was read.
As they explain in a statement, the General Assembly of the entity considers that a tender process for disability care services "is a risk that endangers the quality of the services currently offered by Adislan", since they maintain that in this "the common interest always prevails." In addition, they add that in the service "there is no profit motive", but "a continuous improvement of the services with the direct participation of the families, compared to commercial companies that have economic benefit with the provision of services."
Adislan maintains that as an organization it is based on various aspects that families consider "fundamental for the management and provision of services to people with intellectual disabilities." The Association values "the trajectory and background in the care of people with intellectual disabilities", emphasizing the "more than 50 years that they have been at the forefront." In addition, they maintain that they are an organization that provides services with "values, empathy, closeness, transparency and community perspective", which generates "an attachment of the person and their families."
Adislan affirms that it works so that "no one is outside the support system", continuously promoting "an improvement" in them, as well as in "the advancement of the professionalization of the entity", also offering "immediate attention in emergencies".
These measures allow Adislan, according to what they point out "from the organization itself to have agile mobility in the services, in which they offer professionals a professional career", highlighting that in the staff there is "a high percentage of permanent contracts", something they consider fundamental for working with people with intellectual disabilities.
Adislan points out that its highest governing body is based "on principles of participation", in which there is "an active participation of families" which, together with the supervision by regulations and procedures of the public administration, "offers all the guarantees of compliance with rights in the provision of services".
For this reason, the Association asks the Cabildo that, based on the fact that Adislan "is not an economic operator but an entity with public value of interest" and considering, in addition to the social roots, "its validated, consolidated and long trajectory in the provision of support to people with disabilities"; that "legal alternatives be valued, which in no case imply comparative disadvantage with the rest of the Canary Islands". In this way, Adislan assures that "people with intellectual disabilities" would be protected, and that this would guarantee "the participation of families in the management of intellectual disability care services in Lanzarote".
