To the hot autumn which started with demonstrations for housing and with the call for health protests against the privatization policies of the Government chaired by Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla (PP), a new front is now joining: the fight for dependency.
This weekend there are, convened by the CCOO union, and supported by numerous organizations in the sector, as well as left-wing parties and associations, mobilizations in the eight provinces given what they call “disastrous” management.
“It is the term that would best define the situation of the dependency care system in Andalusia, where There are more than 60,000 people on waiting liststhe waiting time for aid to be granted is 606 days and there are 7,000 places missing in public residences,” says the union. The system has “collapsed” and “the Board knows it,” summarizes CCOO.
The Andalusian Government has taken on the “criticisms”, but at the same time asked itself “where were those voices when the system was really a disaster”. This was stated by the Minister of Social Inclusion, Loles Lopez (PP): “I respect the concentrations called but Criticism lacks arguments when it is not known how much has been done or it is not recognized how much has been done,” he added.
López stated that when the PSOE, which this week supported the union mobilizations, governed in Andalusia, the waiting lists in Dependencia “reached more than 1,200 days.” “The PSOE had up to 200,000 people on waiting lists“added the counselor, according to Europa Press.
“When criticism comes from someone who has managed and the inheritance is not precisely framed in good management, I accept it, but I stay with my job,” said López. The counselor assures that the Andalusian system registers more than 400,000 benefits and 288,000 beneficiaries “despite the underfinancing it suffers from the Government, which has owed a total of 4,000 million since 2019.”
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Regarding the financing of the system, CCOO assures, on the contrary, in a statement that the Andalusian Government “is ignoring it.” “The central government pays 38% and the families’ co-payment is around 20%. Furthermore, with the order that the Andalusian Executive is processing the increase in the co-payment can reach 60% in some casesso that the percentage that the Andalusian Government allocates to dependency is increasingly smaller.
“Andalusia is the third best-financed autonomous community in terms of Dependency by the State, despite this and the State Shock Plan that has led to a considerable increase in financing for the Autonomous Communities, the Government of Andalusia has not managed to reduce the waiting lists,” he says Fernando Cubillofrom CCOO in Malaga.
In a report on the situation of the agency, the union technicians point out that “more than 1,500 places are missing in day centers to end the waiting lists”, which “12,000 people died in Andalusia in 2023 without knowing whether or not they had been granted aid that it is a right” and that Those who “work in the system do so overloaded due to lack of resources and investment by the Andalusian Government, exposed to psychosocial risks, with low salaries, or with temporary and partial contracts that at the same time harm the quality of the service”.
CCOO points directly to the Andalusian Government as the cause of this situation: “We have a law that was pioneering in establishing dependency as a right, but The Andalusian Government with its latest decisions is doing brutal damage to the system“, critical Nuria Lopezthe general secretary of the union.
“It is evident that the Andalusian Executive is trying end trust and credibility in the dependency system breaking the Law and that is terribly painful,” López considered.
Cermi also protests
The Committee of Entities Representatives of People with Disabilities (Cermi-Andalucía) will be mobilized in November in Andalusia to ask the Board and also the Government of Spain for “an improvement in resources.”
“They will star – according to a statement released this Wednesday – protest concentrations at the doors of their headquarters and in their centersin addition to promoting a large provincial protest in emblematic places in the urban center of the eight capitals of the community.”
The president of Cermi Andalucía, Martha Castilloexpressed the “suffocation situation that entities are going through with the current model and warned that currently the services they provide are at risk due to the impossibility of assuming the expenses they entail, since the rates are out of date and do not cover the real expense.”
For the Social Platform of Andalusiawhich brings together left-wing parties, including PSOE, IU and Podemos, as well as unions and associations and which supports the mobilizations, “the Junta de Andalucía has developed a deliberate roadmap to deteriorate, discredit and minimize public services and the people who work in them, reducing the necessary investments to the point of not being able to guarantee their effective provision.
The Government of Moreno Bonillathe platform states, “consciously and consensually plays a inefficient management of public services and, inducing citizen dissatisfaction, transferring resources to private companies through outsourcing, concerts and privatizations.”
“To this,” adds the platform, “we must add the six tax reforms that have led to fact a tax reduction for those who have the mostreducing the source of income to sustain public resources and their provision.”
“In short, a intentional and constant transfer of public resources to the income statement of companies and to those who have the most, always to the detriment of the social majority, leaving the management of the fundamental rights of Andalusians in private hands.”
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