The Arrecife City Council assumes the home help service

The council reveals that a total of 230 people of all ages currently use this assistance

September 11 2023 (16:33 WEST)
Updated in September 11 2023 (16:35 WEST)
Maite Corujo and Yonathan de León. Photo: Arrecife City Council.
Maite Corujo and Yonathan de León. Photo: Arrecife City Council.

 

The Arrecife City Council plenary has approved in the extraordinary session held this Monday to assume as its own the home help service. In this way, it gives legal support to said service, according to the Law approved in 2017. This has been reported by the council in a statement.

The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, has guaranteed that with the plenary agreement this Monday “our elders will continue to receive direct support and care from home care staff.” From the Government group, the mayor remarked, “we are working on a new administrative specification so that the elderly, many of them dependent or with reduced mobility, can have greater assistance.” 

As the Councilor for Social Services, Maite Corujo, has stated, “it is necessary to take this step in order to formalize the new contract correctly, since the current one ends in October and we are not going to allow any person in this municipality who needs home assistance to be without it. We do not want the service to stop being provided to citizens and we are going to maintain it until the new tender comes out.”

The councilor, who regrets that "the PSOE has voted against something so important", has explained that, according to the new law, "the provision of home help is a basic social assistance service and, therefore, is included within the powers of the City Council."

“That is why we are taking this important step and assuming it as our own, so as not to leave unattended the 230 people of all ages who currently use this aid, once the contract with the awarded company expires,” Corujo insisted, recalling that the first level of care for public social services is in the City Councils. “We are the gateway and the first place our neighbors come to,” she said.

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