"The recent approval of the Law of Rationalization and Sustainability of Local Government will mean a dismantling of Public Social Services System, one of the pillars of the welfare state"
If the Law on Local Government of 1985 and the subsequent adoption of the Agreed Plan in 1988 marked a breakthrough in the empowerment and decentralization of the hitherto poorly defined Social Services in our country, the new law creates uncertainty and social concern, when notes that the only proper jurisdiction of the municipalities in this area will, "the assessment and reporting of situations and need immediate attention to people at risk of social exclusion", according to reports from IU-Greens in a statement.
What does this mean?
The social services system is not mentioned as a competence to manage municipalities, ignoring how social services are configured in Spain during the last 30 years,
The important role that regional laws virtually all social services granted to municipalities in the management of social services is not recognized
A margin for maneuver is subtracted from the municipalities in the field of social development, understood not only as individual attention, but as a function of social planning that improves the quality of the population, especially the most disadvantaged.
"We believe that the transformation of social services in Spain is necessary after almost thirty years of development, and in this sense, based on the experience gained in these years, it would suggest improvements that we propose is the development of a Framework Law Social Services that integrates a portfolio of comprehensive basic social care for the entire state, "the statement added.
Social Services, serving the social welfare of the disadvantaged population: people in social need, families in conflict, people with disabilities, older people, etc..
should not be the sector where cut, as illustrated by the State Association of Directors and Managers in Social Services Spain:
"It is impossible to carry out the savings proposed in the Reform Program of Spain if a large part of the services provided by local entities to be suppressed by powers considered" unfit "were to be provided directly by the AA ., so moving to another administration spending.
"Considering the type of services, the fragility of the people served by the municipalities and the administrative complexity and dispersion models by AC, the approaches proposed in the reform savings are socially unacceptable and financially impossible to undertake," highlights from IU-Greens Totana.
