The Ministries of Health and Social Rights, together with the regional governments, have approved this Friday, for the first time, a according to the state level aimed at improving early attention and reducing waiting times. It is a document that establishes a common quality referential framework for all communities that ensures that children under six years have the right to early health care, effective and free, with rapid and equitable access.
The agreement has been approved at a multisectoral conference in which Pablo Bustinduy, Minister of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030, and Mónica García, Minister of Health, according to both portfolios in a statement have been present. Thus, the document is structured in nine lines of action with concrete measures and in 36 quality standards.
The same includes that the Maximum period to intervene in early care should be 45 days Since a case is detected that has an evolutionary risk. This time is the one that the GIE reference marks (European Child Guarantee), a recommendation of the European Union Council that was approved unanimously in 2021.
In addition, he contemplates that All communities have an early care network and a norm that establishes the mechanisms of coordination and sharing of documents and medical records, as well as the basis for having a template of stable, sufficient and quality jobs. It must also interconnect the departments that are part of the process and order their participation: primary care teams, teachers, social services professionals, etc.
On the other hand, it includes improving the quality of early care actions and services; implement effective inter -administrative coordination systems; implement effective collaboration and active participation processes of families; Promote primary prevention; guarantee comprehensive assessment and intervention; the development of professional teams and continuous training of professionals involved in early care; and optimize information and registration systems.
It also collects measures to guarantee comprehensive assessment and intervention, adapting all processes to the reality and rhythms of each boy and each girl, and of their families, with which a permanent dialogue will be established. To this is added that the new orientation is committed to acting in the natural environments of the minors (the home, the park) and for a biopsychosocial approach that addresses all the conditions of development.
The economic endowment for this measure is almost 42 million euros (41,874,524,17) that the Ministry of Social Rights will distribute among the regional governments with the European Social Fund Plus. According to the Spanish Federation of Associations of early care professionals, in 2023 (last year of which there is data) almost 130,000 children needed early attention, which represents more than 5% of the population between 0 and 6 years.
Five years for its implementation
The deadline for the complete implementation of these measures will be the year 2030, so “It will be implemented gradually,” and will coincide with the completion of the State Action Plan for the implementation of the European Child Guarantee (2022-2030). “There will be an evaluation from time to time to see how the autonomous communities are being implemented. And in 2030 of social rights.
In turn, performance indicators will be established that will allow Evaluate the degree of development of commitments and their constant adaptation to the needs of the system. The Technical Early Care Group will carry out a biennial monitoring of the implementation of the measures, based on the measurement of the planned indicators, and will be in 2030 when a final evaluation will be carried out.
From social rights and health alert of serious consequences that can impact children in need of early care if there is no quality public system. Consequences such as seeing their cognitive and social abilities compromised, Develop health and nutrition problems, have educational difficulties, or see their opportunities limited to fully include themselves in the community and achieve their full potential.
“The lack of an effective and free system increases the risk of social exclusion For many families who are forced to replace the lack of the system with their own economic resources, and with their time and energy, “both ministries affect.” causes an imbalance that generates more unequal societies and with less opportunities for these children, and for Their families, “they add.
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