Ángel Víctor Torres closes the Dependency conferences in the Canary Islands

The president emphasized the "progress that has been made in the Canary Islands in this legislature, becoming in 2022 the community that, in proportion to its population, has processed the most registrations in the Dependency system"

October 14 2022 (21:04 WEST)
Updated in October 14 2022 (21:15 WEST)
Dependency Conference
Dependency Conference

The Cabildo of Lanzarote celebrated this Friday the closing ceremony of some “successful” first Dependency Conferences in the Canary Islands ‘Transformation of Dependency in the Canary Islands’.

After the presentation and the two round tables organized during this second day, the president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, the island president, María Dolores Corujo, and the regional councilor for Social Rights, Noemí Santana, starred in the end of this unprecedented project in the Archipelago.

The president of the Canary Islands celebrated “the success of the conferences and thanked the president of the Cabildo, María Dolores Corujo, and the councilor for Social Rights, Noemí Santana, for their involvement, as well as the experts involved in the presentations and the debate that has taken place in these days.”

Torres, in his speech, recalled the importance of the Dependency law of 2006, which “unfortunately suffered years of cuts that were paid for by the most vulnerable.”

The president emphasized the progress that has been made in the Canary Islands in this legislature, becoming in 2022 the community that, in proportion to its population, has processed the most registrations in the Dependency system. Torres assured that, “although there is still a long way to go, it is improving.”

The head of the Executive remarked that "he is proud of the work that Noemí Santana has done in the Ministry and Marta Arocha" in the General Directorate of Dependency because, “not only have they managed to increase the processing of files, with an average of 1,000 per month since March, but they have managed to reduce the number of files that in previous times had been left in limbo.”

In the same vein, the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo, expressed her pride in the result of these first conferences dedicated to transforming Dependency. “This project will be the precursor of other initiatives at the regional level, all with the common goal of improving care for the most vulnerable, optimizing resources and reducing waiting lists to the desired ‘zero’ in Dependency.”

On the second and last day, the attendees of the Conferences  of the presentation “State Financing in the Dependency System”, by the Minister of Social Rights of the Government of the Canary Islands, Noemí Santana, and the general director of Imserso, Luís Alberto Barriga Martín, and of the two round tables “The important coordination between Public Administrations” and “The advance of Dependency in the Canary Islands: SAIDIL”.

 

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