The Governing Council of the Cabildo has awarded the contract for the comprehensive care service of the Network of Minors' Centers under the tutelage of the institution to the SAMU Foundation, Medical Emergency Care Services. "This non-profit entity, with a solid and recognized trajectory at the national level, will be in charge of guaranteeing the welfare, social and educational coverage of the 50 places offered by the César Manrique, Arrecife, Tinajo and Timanfaya centers", they point out from the Corporation. The contract has an amount of 4,211,370 euros and a period of two years, extendable for another two.
On the other hand, the Social Response Siglo XXI Foundation will continue to provide the service it has been providing since 2018 in the La Santa shelter to unaccompanied foreign minors through an emergency contracting procedure. The center currently has 80 places. The amount of this contract is 1,968,314.03 euros, with a duration of one year, extendable for three more. In this case, the financing is carried out with funds from the First Island Institution, which, in turn, receives a subsidy from the Government of the Canary Islands.
The Cabildo of Lanzarote thus regularizes the contractual situation of these care centers, "fundamental in the construction of human values from an early age", and highlights that it puts "an end to the long decade of abandonment and neglect that they suffered as a consequence of policies far from reality and the problems faced by the most vulnerable groups in society".
"From today and for the first time in ten years, they have a legal framework that guarantees legal and economic security and that, simultaneously, allows us to monitor the quality of the services they provide", said the president, María Dolores Corujo.
For her part, the Minister of Social Welfare, Isabel Martín, highlights the work carried out in these centers, "in which professionals from different areas of competence strive daily to transfer to young people knowledge, skills and tools that help them to develop with full autonomy and independence in the future".
The comprehensive care offered to these minors in these centers includes services such as shelter, maintenance and psychological, social, educational and health care. Likewise, special attention is paid to aspects such as school follow-up, rest activities, health protection and contacts with the outside, among others.
