The Association of People with Disabilities of Lanzarote (Adislan) has carried out a protest this Tuesday, in front of the doors of the Cabildo, to show its disagreement with the proposal of bidding by the first institution of the island of the residence services, day center, occupational center and functional homes that this organization has been managing. "The families do not agree", is assured in a statement sent by Adislan.
In this regard, it should be recalled that the new government group of the Cabildo revealed that the disability care service, for an amount of 2.7 million euros per year, had been provided "irregularly" without a contract, and announced in May that in "two or three months" it would be put out to tender. However, Adislan considers that "a bidding/privatization process of disability care services is a risk that endangers the quality of services it offers" at present. And, it assures that "in this, the common interest always prevails, there is no profit, but a continuous improvement of services with the direct participation of families, compared to commercial companies that have economic benefit with the provision of services."
In this regard, Adislan exposes the aspects on which it is based as an organization, stating that families consider them "fundamental for the management and therefore for the provision of services to people with intellectual disabilities. Among them, it defends its trajectory and background in the care of people with intellectual disabilities, pointing out that they have been "more than 50 years at the forefront of disability." It also highlights the "rootedness of the person and their families" and claims to be "an organization that provides services with values, empathy, closeness, that acts with transparency and with a community perspective.
Similarly, Adislan points out that it offers "immediate attention in emergencies" and that it works "so that no one is outside the support system", ensuring that all people are cared for and supported. In addition, it claims to carry out a "continuous impulse in the improvements in the support offered to people, in the organizational management, in the efficiency and in the advancement of the professionalization of the entity."
Adislan also points out that it "allows agile mobility between services to meet the needs of personal support" and states that it offers its workers "professional career". Therefore, it points out that "in the staff there is a high percentage of permanent contracts, a fundamental aspect in working with people with intellectual disabilities and their families."
Finally, it states that its highest governing body "is based on principles of participation", stating that "there is an active participation of families who, together with the supervision by regulations and procedures of the public administration, offers all guarantees of compliance with rights in the provision of services."
Thus, relying on the fact that it is an entity "with public value, of interest in relation to its trajectory and history and not being an economic operator", Adislan demands that the Cabildo "consider and give value to the long trajectory, validated and consolidated in the provision of support to people with disabilities and their families, the social roots, and the comparative grievance with the rest of the Canary Islands" and that "legal alternatives that protect people with intellectual disabilities, and the participation of families in the management of intellectual disability care services in Lanzarote" be valued.
