The San Bartolomé City Council approved last Monday the file for the celebration of a social agreement for the management of the public service of the family respite day center. Isidro Pérez explained that this form of administrative contract represents "an opportunity to improve cooperation between the public and private sectors, prioritizing at all times the increase in the quality of the service and its stability."
San Bartolomé thus becomes a benchmark in the Canary Islands in the provision of this type of service with its own funds and is, in this sense, a pioneering administration in Lanzarote in the use of social agreement as a management tool. This City Council is one of the first in the archipelago to opt for this formula.
As Isidro Pérez recalls, the social agreement entails "indirect management with the non-profit entity" that is awarded the contract for the provision of the services required in this center for the direct care of users. He indicates that the management to be carried out implies "personal care or family support," among other things, "thus offering comprehensive coverage to the beneficiaries of the facilities and their families and/or companions."
Regarding the amounts, the tender announcement contemplates a multi-year expenditure of 1.33 million euros: 108,156 euros in 2023, 435,534 in 2024, 447,250 in 2025 and 342,159 euros in 2026, with the deadline for submitting offers being two months.
The activity of the agreement will be that of a day center, which can benefit people registered in San Bartolomé with a minimum of one year of seniority and who are in a situation of dependency or social isolation with little or no family support, with a consequent situation of risk or psychosocial deprivation.
It is also aimed at people with functional limitations, reduced mobility or who partially depend on third parties to function in daily life, as well as people with reduced mobility or cognitive impairment. It should be remembered that there will be thirty places.
Pérez emphasizes the social character that has marked the Government's action of the San Bartolomé City Council. "We develop a municipal management where we place the well-being of the residents at the center of political activity," says the mayor, while highlighting the "special affection" with which the Government Group has treated this family respite center project.
"The San Bartolomé family respite center is a clear example of 'said and done': being a modest City Council with limited resources, we have invested the maximum effort at all levels to make it a reality, to offer answers through the creation of a sustainable social care system," he says. In this sense, he values the magnitude of the tender, to which is added the civil works worth about 700,000 euros also from own funds.
The mayor highlights "the important work done to make this project possible," whose objective is, on the one hand, "to guarantee care, companionship and professional care to the person who benefits from the service, as well as time for their families so that they can maintain their personal, work and social activities."